1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
10 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
11 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
13 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
14 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
15 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
16 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
18 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
19 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
20 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
21 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
22 so could be handling tainted values.
24 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
25 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
26 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
28 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
29 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
30 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
33 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
34 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
35 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
36 to align better with RFC 6125.
38 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
39 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
40 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
41 by adding a relase action in that path.
43 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
44 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
45 dynamically-created buffers.
47 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
48 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
49 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
50 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
52 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
53 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
54 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
55 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
57 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
58 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
59 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
61 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
62 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
63 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
64 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
66 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
67 excluded, not matching the documentation.
69 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
70 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
72 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
73 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
74 this was a coding error.
76 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
77 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
78 spent suspended, ignoring the Posix definition. Previously we assumed
79 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
80 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
81 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
82 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
84 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
85 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
86 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignement. Discovery and fix by
87 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
89 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
90 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
91 dynamicaly created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
92 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
93 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
95 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
96 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
99 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
100 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
101 domain-parking registrar.
103 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
104 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
105 after removing the newline.
107 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
108 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
109 option set, which was previously used.
111 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
114 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
115 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
116 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
117 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
119 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
120 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
121 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
122 exim.dev.20160529.3).
124 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
125 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
126 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
128 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
129 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
130 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
133 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
134 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
135 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
137 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
138 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
139 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
140 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
143 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
144 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
145 there, handle PRX and TFO.
147 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
148 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
149 in a panic-log trigerrable by sending a message with a long address in
150 a header. Fix by increaing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
151 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
153 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
154 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
155 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
156 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
159 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
160 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
162 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
165 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
166 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
167 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
168 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
169 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
171 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
173 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
174 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
175 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
176 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
177 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
178 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
180 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
181 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
183 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
184 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
185 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentidcation.
187 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
188 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
191 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
192 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
193 of a new variable: $auth4.
195 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
196 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
197 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
198 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
199 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
201 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
202 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
203 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
204 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
206 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
207 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
208 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
210 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
211 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
212 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
213 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
216 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
217 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
218 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
221 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
222 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
223 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
224 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
226 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
227 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
229 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
230 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
231 looked as if if might be one.
233 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
234 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
235 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
236 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
237 messages can show the proxy information.
239 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
240 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
241 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
242 "queue_time_exclusive".
244 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
245 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover epxansions
246 rerulting in acl names and inline ACL content.
248 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
249 making it unusable in complex expressions.
251 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
252 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
255 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
257 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
259 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
261 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
262 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
263 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
264 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
266 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
267 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
269 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
270 better. Reported by Qualys.
276 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
277 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
278 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
280 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
282 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
283 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
286 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
287 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
288 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
290 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
292 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
294 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
295 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
296 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
298 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
299 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
300 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
302 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
303 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
305 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
306 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
309 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
310 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
311 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
312 should both provide the file and set the option.
313 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
315 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
316 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
318 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
319 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
320 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
321 Authentication-Results: header.
323 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
324 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
325 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
326 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
328 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
329 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
330 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
331 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
332 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
333 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
334 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
336 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
337 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
338 copies while it is still usable.
340 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
341 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
342 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
344 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
345 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
347 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
348 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
349 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
350 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
352 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
353 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
354 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
357 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
358 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
359 - the pipe transport command
360 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
361 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
363 - paths used by single-key lookups
364 Previously this was permitted.
366 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
367 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
368 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
369 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
371 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
372 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
373 support larger malloc requests.
375 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
376 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
377 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
378 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
380 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
381 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
382 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
383 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
386 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
387 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
388 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
389 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
390 data being length-specified.
392 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
393 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
394 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
395 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
397 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
398 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
399 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
400 not being properly tracked.
402 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
403 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
404 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
405 minute could be seen.
407 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
408 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
409 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
411 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
412 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
414 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
415 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
418 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
420 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
421 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
423 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
424 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
425 filesystem as sufficient validation.
427 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
428 argument is supplied.
430 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
431 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
432 access under Exim's current working directory.
434 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
435 Previously no event was raised.
437 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
438 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
439 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
442 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
443 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
444 the size of the signature hash.
446 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
447 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
449 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
450 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
451 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
452 dropped between messages.
454 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
455 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
456 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
457 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
459 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
460 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
461 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
462 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
463 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
464 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
465 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
466 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
467 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
469 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
470 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
471 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
473 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
474 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
481 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
482 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
484 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
485 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
488 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
491 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
493 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
495 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
496 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
498 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
499 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
500 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
501 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
502 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
503 suitably configured).
505 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
506 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
508 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
509 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
512 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
513 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
515 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
516 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
517 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
518 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
521 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
522 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
523 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
525 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
528 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
529 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
531 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
532 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
533 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
534 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
537 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
538 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
539 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
540 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
543 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
544 shared (NFS) environment.
546 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
547 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
550 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
551 on some platforms for bit 31.
553 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
554 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
555 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
556 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
557 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
558 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
559 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
560 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
562 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
564 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
565 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
567 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
568 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
571 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
572 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
575 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
576 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
577 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
580 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
581 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
582 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
584 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
585 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
586 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
587 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
588 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
590 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
593 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
594 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
595 be requested on all coneections.
597 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
598 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
600 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
602 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
603 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
604 one for these; the option was ignored.
606 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
607 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
608 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
609 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
611 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
612 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
613 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
616 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
617 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
618 error ignored was made.
620 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
622 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
623 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
624 values, to catch one form of exploit.
626 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
627 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
628 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
630 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
631 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
634 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
635 them in our smtp response.
637 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
638 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
639 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
640 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
641 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
643 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
644 link count into consideration.
646 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
647 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
649 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
650 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
651 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
654 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
656 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
658 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
660 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
661 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
662 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
663 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
665 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
667 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
668 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
671 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
672 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
673 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
675 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
676 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
677 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
679 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
680 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
681 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
682 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
683 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
684 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
685 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
686 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
688 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
689 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
690 resulted in an indefinite loop.
692 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
693 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
694 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
700 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
701 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
703 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
704 non-signal-safe functions being used.
706 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
707 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
708 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
710 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
711 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
712 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
714 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
715 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
716 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
717 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
718 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
721 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
722 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
724 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
725 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
726 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
727 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
728 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
729 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
730 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
732 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
733 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
735 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
738 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
739 Previously this would segfault.
741 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
744 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
745 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
746 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
747 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
748 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
749 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
751 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
753 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
754 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
755 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
756 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
758 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
760 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
761 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
762 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
763 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
765 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
767 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
769 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
770 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
771 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
773 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
774 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
775 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
777 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
779 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
780 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
781 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
782 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
784 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
785 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
786 promised '?' replacement.
788 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
790 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
791 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
792 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
793 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
794 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
796 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
797 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
798 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
800 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
801 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
802 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
804 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
805 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
806 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
808 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
809 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
810 hope that is portable enough.
812 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
813 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
814 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
815 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
817 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
818 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
819 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
821 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
822 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
823 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
824 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
826 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
827 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
829 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
830 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
831 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
832 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
834 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
835 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
836 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
838 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
839 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
840 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
841 the previous G, M, k.
843 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
844 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
847 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
848 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
849 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
850 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
852 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
853 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
855 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
856 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
857 off past the nul-terimation.
859 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
860 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
861 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
862 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
863 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
865 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
867 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
868 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
869 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
872 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
873 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
875 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
876 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
877 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
879 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
880 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
881 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
883 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
884 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
890 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
891 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
892 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
893 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
894 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
895 be defined in redis_servers.
897 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
898 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
900 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
901 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
902 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
903 extant use locations.
905 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
906 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
908 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
909 Previously only the last row was returned.
911 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
912 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
913 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
914 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
917 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
918 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
919 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
920 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
921 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
922 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
923 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
924 Main pool for expansions.
925 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
926 active in the testsuite.
927 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
929 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
930 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
931 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
932 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
935 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
936 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
939 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
940 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
941 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
943 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
944 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
945 ClamAV interface method is removed.
947 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
948 rows affected is given instead).
950 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
951 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
953 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
954 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
955 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
956 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
957 for all multi-message initiating connections.
959 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
960 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
961 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
963 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
964 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
965 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
966 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
969 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
970 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
971 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
974 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
976 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
977 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
979 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
980 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
981 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
983 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
984 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
985 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
988 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
989 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
991 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
992 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
993 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
995 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
996 for the build is renamed.
998 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
999 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1000 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1002 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1003 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1004 result replacing the original.
1006 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1007 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1008 and the resources needed to be freed.
1010 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1012 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1015 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1016 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1017 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1018 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1020 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1021 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1023 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1024 newer versions of the scanner.
1026 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1027 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1028 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1029 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1030 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1031 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1032 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1034 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1035 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1036 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1037 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1038 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1039 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1040 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1041 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1042 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1043 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1045 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1046 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1048 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1050 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1051 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1053 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1054 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1056 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1057 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1058 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1060 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1061 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1062 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1063 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1065 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1066 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1069 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1070 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1072 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1073 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1074 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1075 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1076 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1078 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1079 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1082 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1083 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1085 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1088 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1089 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1090 "bare" representation.
1092 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1093 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1094 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1095 corrupted the output.
1101 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1102 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1103 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1104 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1106 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1107 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1109 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1110 This permits better logging.
1112 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1113 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1114 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1115 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1116 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1117 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1119 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1120 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1123 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1124 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1125 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1127 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1128 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1130 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1131 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1132 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1133 client, there is no benefit for these.
1134 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1135 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1136 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1139 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1140 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1142 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1143 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1144 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1146 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1147 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1149 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1150 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1151 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1152 signature and again for transmission.
1154 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1155 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1156 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1158 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1159 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1160 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1161 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1162 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1163 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1164 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1166 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1167 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1168 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1169 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1171 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1172 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1173 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1174 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1175 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1176 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1179 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1180 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1181 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1182 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1185 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1186 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1187 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1188 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1191 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1192 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1195 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1196 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1197 banner-time rejection.
1199 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1202 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1203 is the name of a transport.
1206 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1208 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1209 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1211 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1212 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1213 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1216 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1217 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1218 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1219 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1221 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1222 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1223 initial verify call returned a defer.
1225 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1226 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1228 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1229 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1231 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1232 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1234 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1235 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1237 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1238 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1241 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1242 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1244 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1245 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1246 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1248 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1249 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1250 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1251 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1253 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1254 and confused the parent.
1256 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1257 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1259 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1262 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1263 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1264 out-of-order delivery.
1266 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1267 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1268 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1271 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1272 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1275 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1276 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1277 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1279 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1280 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1281 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1282 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1283 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1284 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1286 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1287 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1288 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1290 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1291 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1292 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1294 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1295 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1296 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1297 though a different problem.
1303 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1304 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1306 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1308 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1309 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1311 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1312 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1314 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1315 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1316 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1317 before acknowledging the chunk.
1319 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1320 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1321 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1323 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1324 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1325 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1328 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1329 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1330 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1332 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1333 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1335 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1336 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1337 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1338 body hash calculated value.
1340 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1341 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1342 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1344 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1346 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1347 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1349 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1350 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1351 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1353 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1354 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1355 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1356 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1357 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1358 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1360 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1361 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1362 past that check, despite the cost.
1364 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1365 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1366 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1368 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1369 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1370 TLS library to consume.
1372 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1374 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1376 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1377 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1378 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1379 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1380 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1381 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1382 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1384 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1386 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1388 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1389 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1390 should be warning-free.
1392 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1394 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1395 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1397 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1398 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1399 general solution here.
1401 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1402 already-broken messages in the queue.
1404 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1406 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1412 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1413 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1415 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1416 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1417 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1419 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1420 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1421 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1422 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1423 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1424 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1425 if one fails this test.
1426 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1427 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1429 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1430 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1432 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1433 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1435 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1436 in rewrites and routers.
1438 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1439 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1441 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1442 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1444 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1446 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1449 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1450 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1451 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1452 connection after a verify cache hit.
1453 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1455 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1456 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1458 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1459 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1460 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1461 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1462 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1464 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1465 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1467 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1468 Previously they were not counted.
1470 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1471 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1472 that needed the lookup.
1474 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1475 distinguished as "(=".
1477 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1478 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1480 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1482 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1483 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1485 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1486 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1488 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1489 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1492 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1493 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1494 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1495 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1497 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1499 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1500 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1501 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1503 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1504 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1505 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1508 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1509 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1510 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1513 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1514 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1515 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1517 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1518 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1521 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1523 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1524 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1526 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1527 are not in the system include path.
1529 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1530 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1531 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1532 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1534 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1535 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1536 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1538 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1540 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1541 an incoming connection.
1543 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1546 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1547 fallback to "prime256v1".
1549 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1550 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1556 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1557 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1558 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1559 client dropping the TLS connection.
1561 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1562 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1564 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1565 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1566 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1567 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1570 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1571 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1572 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1573 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1574 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1575 check on the next write.
1577 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1578 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1579 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1580 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1581 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1583 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1584 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1586 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1587 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1588 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1590 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1591 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1592 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1593 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1595 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1596 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1598 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1599 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1601 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1602 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1603 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1606 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1608 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1610 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1612 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1613 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1615 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1616 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1618 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1620 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1621 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1623 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1625 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1626 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1628 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1630 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1631 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1632 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1633 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1634 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1635 they will retry in-clear.
1636 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1637 at installation time.
1639 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1640 with the $config_file variable.
1642 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1643 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1644 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1645 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1646 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1648 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1649 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1650 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1651 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1652 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1654 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1656 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1657 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1658 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1659 list order is no longer honoured.
1661 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1662 for DKIM processing.
1664 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1665 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1667 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1668 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1669 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1670 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1672 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1673 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1675 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1676 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1678 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1679 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1681 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1683 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1684 cached by the daemon.
1686 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1687 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1689 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1690 keys are given for lookup.
1692 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1693 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1694 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1695 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1697 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1698 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1699 server-side so match that on older versions.
1701 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1702 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1703 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1705 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1706 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1708 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1709 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1710 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1711 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1712 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1713 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1714 initial truncated version.
1716 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1718 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1720 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1721 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1723 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1725 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1727 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1728 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1731 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1732 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1735 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1736 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1738 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1739 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1742 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1743 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1744 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1746 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1747 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1748 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1749 extraction. Accept either.
1755 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1758 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1760 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1763 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1764 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1765 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1766 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1768 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1769 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1770 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1772 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1773 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1774 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1777 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1780 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1781 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1782 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1783 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1784 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1786 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1787 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1788 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1790 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1792 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1793 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1795 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1796 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1798 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1801 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1802 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1804 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1805 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1806 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1808 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1809 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1810 specify a port-range.
1812 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1813 timeout value per server.
1815 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1816 now have the list separator specified.
1818 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1821 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1824 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1826 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1827 rather than the verbs used.
1829 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1830 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1832 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1834 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1835 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1837 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1838 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1840 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1841 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1843 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1845 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1847 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1848 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1849 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1850 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1852 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1854 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1855 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1857 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1858 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1860 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1862 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1864 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1866 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1867 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1869 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1870 added for tls authenticator.
1872 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1878 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1879 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1880 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1881 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1882 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1883 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1884 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1886 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1887 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1888 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1889 function when detected.
1891 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1892 cause callback expansion.
1894 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1895 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1896 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1897 instead of bool when processing it.
1899 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1900 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1902 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1904 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1906 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1908 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1909 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1911 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1912 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1913 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1914 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1915 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1916 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1918 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1919 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1922 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1923 version 3.3.6 or later.
1925 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1926 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1927 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1928 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1929 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1930 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1933 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1934 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1936 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1937 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1938 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1941 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1942 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1943 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1945 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1946 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1948 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1949 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1952 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1954 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1955 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1957 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1958 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1961 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1963 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1966 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1967 output list separator was used.
1972 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1973 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1976 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1977 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1979 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1981 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1982 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1988 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1990 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1991 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1992 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1993 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1994 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1995 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1997 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1998 utilities have not been installed.
2000 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2001 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2003 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2004 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2006 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2007 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2008 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2009 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2011 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2013 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2014 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2016 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2019 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2021 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2022 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2023 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2025 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2026 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2027 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2028 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2029 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2030 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2032 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2034 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2035 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2037 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2040 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2042 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2044 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2045 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2047 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2048 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2050 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2052 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2054 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2055 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2057 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2058 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2059 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2061 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2062 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2063 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2066 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2068 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2069 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2072 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2073 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2076 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2077 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2079 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2080 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2082 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2084 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2085 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2086 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2088 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2089 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2091 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2092 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2095 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2096 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2097 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2099 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2101 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2102 Christian Aistleitner.
2104 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2106 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2107 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2109 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2110 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2112 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2113 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2115 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2116 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2118 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2119 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2121 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2122 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2123 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2125 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2127 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2128 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2131 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2133 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2134 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2141 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2143 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2144 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2146 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2149 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2150 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2153 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2155 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2156 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2157 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2158 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2159 using channel bindings instead).
2161 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2162 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2163 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2164 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2165 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2168 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2170 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2172 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2173 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2175 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2176 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2177 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2179 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2181 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2183 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2184 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2186 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2188 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2190 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2192 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2193 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2195 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2197 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2198 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2201 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2202 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2204 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2205 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2208 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2210 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2212 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2213 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2215 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2218 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2219 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2221 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2222 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2224 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2226 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2228 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2231 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2234 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2236 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2237 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2238 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2239 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2241 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2243 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2244 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2245 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2246 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2249 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2250 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2251 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2253 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2254 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2255 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2256 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2258 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2259 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2260 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2261 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2262 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2263 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2264 delivery, as in LMTP.
2266 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2267 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2269 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2271 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2275 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2276 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2277 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2278 username as equal to the username.
2280 This change corrects that bug.
2282 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2283 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2284 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2286 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2288 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2289 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2290 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2291 NULL dereference and crash.
2293 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2295 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2296 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2297 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2299 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2301 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2302 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2303 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2304 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2305 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2306 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2307 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2308 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2309 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2310 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2311 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2313 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2314 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2316 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2317 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2320 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2321 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2322 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2323 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2324 an empty string is now equivalent.
2326 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2327 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2328 not performing validation itself.
2330 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2331 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2333 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2336 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2338 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2339 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2340 other false fix of the same issue.
2341 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2344 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2345 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2347 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2348 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2349 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2351 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2352 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2353 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2355 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2357 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2359 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2360 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2362 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2365 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2366 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2367 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2368 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2369 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2371 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2372 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2374 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2375 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2378 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2379 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2380 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2381 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2383 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2385 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2386 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2387 from multiple comments on this bug.
2389 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2391 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2392 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2395 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2396 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2398 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2399 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2405 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2407 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2413 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2414 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2415 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2417 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2419 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2422 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2424 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2426 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2428 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2429 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2431 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2432 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2434 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2435 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2437 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2438 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2439 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2441 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2443 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2444 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2446 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2448 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2450 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2451 non-compliant senders.
2452 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2454 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2455 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2456 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2458 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2459 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2460 in spool file corruption.
2462 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2463 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2464 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2467 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2468 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2469 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2471 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2472 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2474 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2476 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2478 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2480 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2481 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2482 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2484 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2485 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2486 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2487 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2489 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2490 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2492 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2493 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2494 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2495 resolver implementation change.
2497 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2498 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2500 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2502 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2504 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2505 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2507 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2508 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2510 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2511 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2513 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2514 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2515 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2516 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2517 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2519 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2521 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2522 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2523 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2525 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2527 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2528 read-only, out of scope).
2529 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2531 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2532 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2533 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2534 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2536 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2538 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2539 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2540 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2541 real issues in debug logging.
2543 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2544 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2546 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2547 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2548 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2550 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2551 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2552 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2555 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2556 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2558 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2559 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2560 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2561 needs to override this, it can.
2563 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2564 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2565 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2567 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2568 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2569 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2570 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2572 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2578 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2579 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2581 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2583 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2586 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2587 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2589 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2590 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2591 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2593 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2594 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2595 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2596 not safe for signals.
2598 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2599 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2600 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2601 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2604 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2606 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2607 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2608 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2609 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2610 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2612 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2613 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2614 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2615 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2616 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2617 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2619 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2620 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2621 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2622 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2624 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2625 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2626 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2627 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2629 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2630 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2631 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2632 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2633 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2634 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2635 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2636 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2637 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2639 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2640 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2641 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2642 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2644 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2645 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2646 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2647 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2648 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2649 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2650 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2651 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2652 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2653 details in the main documentation.
2655 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2657 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2659 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2660 repository when doing development or release builds.
2662 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2663 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2665 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2666 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2669 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2671 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2672 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2674 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2675 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2677 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2678 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2680 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2681 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2683 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2684 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2686 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2688 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2691 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2692 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2693 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2695 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2697 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2699 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2700 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2706 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2708 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2709 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2711 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2713 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2715 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2718 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2719 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2721 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2722 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2724 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2725 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2727 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2730 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2731 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2733 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2734 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2735 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2736 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2738 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2739 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2745 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2748 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2749 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2750 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2752 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2753 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2755 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2756 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2757 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2759 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2760 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2762 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2763 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2765 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2766 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2768 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2769 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2771 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2772 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2774 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2777 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2778 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2780 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2781 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2783 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2784 SQL string expansion failure details.
2785 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2787 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2788 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2790 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2791 extern declarations in function scope.
2792 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2794 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2795 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2796 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2799 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2800 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2802 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2803 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2805 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2806 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2808 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2809 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2811 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2812 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2815 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2817 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2819 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2820 Patch by Simon Arlott
2822 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2823 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2829 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2830 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2832 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2833 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2835 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2837 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2838 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2839 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2841 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2842 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2843 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2845 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2846 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2847 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2848 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2850 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2851 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2852 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2853 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2855 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2856 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2857 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2860 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2863 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2864 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2865 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2866 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2867 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2873 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2874 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2875 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2877 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2878 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2880 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2882 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2884 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2886 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2888 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2890 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2891 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2892 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2893 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2895 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2896 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2897 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2898 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2899 more caution in buffer sizes.
2901 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2903 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2905 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2907 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2909 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2911 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2913 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2915 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2916 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2917 ignore trailing whitespace.
2919 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2921 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2924 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2925 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2927 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2928 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2929 Notification from John Horne.
2931 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2934 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2935 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2938 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2941 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2942 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2943 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2945 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2946 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2947 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2950 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2951 option (effectively making it always true).
2953 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2954 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2956 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2957 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2959 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2960 run-time user, instead of root.
2962 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2963 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2965 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2966 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2969 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2970 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2971 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2973 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2975 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2981 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2982 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2985 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2986 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2989 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2990 Patch from Alain Williams
2992 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2994 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2995 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2997 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2998 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3000 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3002 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3004 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3005 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3007 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3009 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3011 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3012 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3013 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3015 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3016 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3018 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3019 Patch by Simon Arlott
3021 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3022 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3028 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3030 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3032 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3034 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3036 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3042 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3043 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3045 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3046 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3049 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3050 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3051 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3053 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3054 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3056 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3057 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3058 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3059 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3061 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3062 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3063 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3065 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3067 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3069 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3070 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3072 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3074 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3075 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3076 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3077 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3079 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3080 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3082 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3084 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3086 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3087 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3089 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3090 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3092 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3093 that they are available at delivery time.
3095 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3097 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3098 incoming_port log selectors.
3100 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3101 setting expands to an empty string.
3103 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3104 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3106 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3107 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3109 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3110 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3112 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3113 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3115 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3116 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3118 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3119 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3121 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3123 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3124 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3126 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3127 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3129 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3131 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3132 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3134 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3136 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3138 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3141 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3142 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3144 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3145 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3147 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3148 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3150 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3151 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3153 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3154 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3156 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3157 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3159 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3160 plus update to original patch.
3162 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3164 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3165 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3167 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3169 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3171 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3173 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3175 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3176 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3178 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3179 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3181 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3182 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3184 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3185 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3187 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3189 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3191 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3193 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3199 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3200 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3201 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3203 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3204 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3205 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3206 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3207 build errors in sieve.c.
3209 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3210 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3211 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3213 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3215 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3217 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3219 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3225 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3227 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3228 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3229 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3230 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3231 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3232 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3233 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3234 for iplsearch lookups.
3236 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3237 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3238 previously such lookups could never work.
3240 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3241 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3242 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3244 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3247 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3248 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3249 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3250 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3251 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3252 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3254 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3255 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3257 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3258 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3259 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3260 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3261 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3262 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3264 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3267 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3269 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3270 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3273 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3274 by clients under certain conditions.
3276 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3277 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3279 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3281 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3282 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3284 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3286 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3288 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3290 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3291 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3293 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3295 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3296 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3298 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3300 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3302 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3303 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3304 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3305 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3307 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3308 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3309 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3311 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3312 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3314 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3316 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3318 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3320 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3321 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3322 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3328 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3329 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3332 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3333 issue a MAIL command.
3335 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3337 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3339 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3340 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3341 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3342 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3343 item. This has been fixed.
3345 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3346 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3348 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3349 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3351 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3352 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3353 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3355 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3357 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3358 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3359 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3360 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3361 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3363 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3364 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3365 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3367 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3368 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3369 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3370 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3372 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3374 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3376 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3377 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3378 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3379 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3380 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3382 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3384 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3385 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3386 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3389 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3391 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3393 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3395 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3397 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3399 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3400 no_callout_flush is set.
3402 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3403 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3404 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3407 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3409 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3410 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3411 other ACL rejections are.
3413 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3414 with slight modification.
3416 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3417 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3419 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3420 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3423 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3424 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3426 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3428 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3429 expansion side effects.
3431 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3432 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3433 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3436 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3437 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3438 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3440 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3441 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3442 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3443 were accidentally chopped off.
3445 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3446 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3447 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3448 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3449 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3450 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3451 pipelining has not been advertised.
3453 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3455 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3456 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3457 This has been fixed.
3459 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3460 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3461 reported on Solaris.
3463 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3464 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3465 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3466 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3467 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3468 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3469 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3471 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3474 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3476 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3478 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3479 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3480 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3481 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3482 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3483 criteria to be more general.
3485 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3486 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3487 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3488 host_all_ignored option.
3490 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3491 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3492 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3493 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3494 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3495 is what is supposed to happen).
3497 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3498 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3499 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3500 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3501 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3504 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3505 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3506 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3507 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3508 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3509 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3512 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3514 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3515 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3517 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3518 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3520 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3522 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3524 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3525 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3526 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3527 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3528 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3529 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3530 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3531 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3532 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3533 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3534 least in a lot of common cases.
3536 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3537 advertised in response to EHLO.
3543 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3544 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3546 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3547 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3549 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3550 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3551 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3553 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3554 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3555 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3556 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3557 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3563 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3564 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3567 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3568 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3569 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3571 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3572 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3573 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3574 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3575 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3576 rather than extend the field.
3582 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3583 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3584 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3585 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3588 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3589 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3590 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3592 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3593 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3594 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3596 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3597 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3598 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3601 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3602 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3603 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3604 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3605 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3606 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3607 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3608 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3609 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3610 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3611 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3613 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3616 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3617 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3618 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3619 ignores EPIPE as well.
3621 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3622 (quoted-printable decoding).
3624 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3625 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3627 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3629 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3631 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3633 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3634 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3636 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3639 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3640 miscellaneous code fixes
3642 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3645 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3646 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3647 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3648 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3649 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3650 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3651 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3652 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3654 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3655 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3656 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3657 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3659 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3660 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3661 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3662 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3663 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3664 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3665 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3666 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3667 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3669 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3672 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3673 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3674 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3675 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3676 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3677 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3678 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3679 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3681 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3682 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3685 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3686 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3687 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3688 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3689 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3690 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3691 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3692 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3693 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3694 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3695 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3696 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3697 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3699 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3700 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3701 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3702 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3703 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3704 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3705 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3707 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3708 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3709 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3710 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3711 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3712 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3713 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3714 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3715 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3716 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3718 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3719 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3720 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3721 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3722 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3724 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3725 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3726 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3727 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3728 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3729 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3730 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3732 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3733 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3734 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3735 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3736 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3737 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3740 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3741 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3742 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3745 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3746 if any retry times were supplied.
3748 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3749 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3750 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3752 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3754 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3756 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3757 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3758 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3759 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3760 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3761 before) are ignored.
3763 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3764 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3766 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3767 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3768 committing the later change.]
3770 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3771 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3772 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3773 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3774 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3775 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3776 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3777 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3778 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3780 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3781 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3782 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3783 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3784 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3785 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3786 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3787 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3788 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3790 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3791 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3792 hammering the server.
3794 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3795 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3797 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3799 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3800 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3801 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3803 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3804 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3805 one case where this was not true.
3807 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3808 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3809 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3810 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3813 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3814 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3815 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3816 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3817 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3818 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3819 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3820 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3821 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3824 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3825 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3826 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3827 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3829 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3830 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3832 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3833 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3834 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3836 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3838 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3840 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3842 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3843 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3844 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3845 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3847 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3848 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3850 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3851 be meaningful with "accept".
3853 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3854 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3856 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3857 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3858 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3860 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3861 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3862 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3863 there is data to show.
3864 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3866 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3867 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3868 as well as the number of messages.
3870 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3871 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3872 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3874 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3875 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3876 have a flag are now skipped.
3878 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3879 Added the -emptyok flag.
3881 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3882 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3884 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3885 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3886 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3888 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3891 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3892 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3894 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3896 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3897 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3899 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3901 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3902 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3903 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3904 contravention of the specifications.
3906 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3907 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3908 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3910 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3911 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3912 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3914 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3916 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3917 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3918 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3919 some point in the past.
3921 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3922 transport during callout processing was broken.
3924 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3925 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3927 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3928 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3930 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3931 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3933 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3939 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3940 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3942 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3943 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3944 there is data to show.
3945 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3947 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3948 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3950 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3951 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3953 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3954 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3956 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3957 submissions from trusted users.
3959 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3960 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3962 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3963 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3964 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3965 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3966 there is now a framework to start from.
3968 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3969 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3970 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3972 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3974 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3976 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3978 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3979 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3980 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3982 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3985 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3986 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3987 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3989 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3990 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3991 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3994 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3995 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3996 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3997 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3998 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4000 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4001 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4003 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4005 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4006 operations in malware.c.
4008 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4011 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4012 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4013 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4016 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4017 statements to "add_header".
4019 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4020 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4022 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4023 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4026 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4030 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4031 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4032 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4035 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4036 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4038 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4039 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4041 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4042 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4043 any possible encoding problems.
4045 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4046 but not after initializing Perl.
4048 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4049 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4050 apparently, which is not desirable.
4052 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4055 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4058 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4060 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4061 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4062 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4063 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4065 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4066 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4067 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4069 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4070 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4071 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4074 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4075 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4076 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4077 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4078 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4084 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4085 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4087 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4090 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4091 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4092 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4093 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4094 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4095 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4096 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4097 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4100 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4102 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4103 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4104 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4106 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4107 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4108 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4111 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4112 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4114 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4115 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4116 option (which defaults to 0600).
4118 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4120 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4121 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4122 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4123 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4124 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4125 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4126 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4128 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4134 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4135 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4136 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4137 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4138 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4139 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4142 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4143 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4145 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4147 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4148 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4149 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4150 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4151 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4154 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4155 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4157 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4158 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4159 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4160 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4161 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4163 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4164 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4165 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4166 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4168 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4169 be the same on different OS.
4171 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4174 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4175 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4177 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4180 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4181 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4182 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4183 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4184 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4185 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4188 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4189 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4190 when Exim was called.
4192 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4193 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4195 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4196 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4197 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4198 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4200 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4201 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4202 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4203 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4206 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4207 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4208 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4210 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4211 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4212 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4214 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4217 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4218 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4219 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4220 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4221 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4222 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4223 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4224 values from the SRV records were lost.
4226 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4227 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4228 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4230 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4231 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4232 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4234 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4235 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4236 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4237 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4238 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4239 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4240 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4241 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4242 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4243 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4245 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4246 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4247 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4249 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4250 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4252 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4253 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4254 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4255 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4258 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4259 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4260 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4262 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4263 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4264 PH/23 above applies.
4266 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4267 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4268 (for which there is an explicit test).
4270 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4272 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4273 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4274 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4275 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4276 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4278 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4279 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4280 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4281 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4283 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4284 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4285 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4287 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4289 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4291 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4292 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4293 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4295 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4296 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4297 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4298 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4299 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4301 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4302 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4303 the message gets confusing).
4305 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4306 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4307 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4308 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4310 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4311 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4312 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4313 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4316 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4317 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4318 the different processes.
4320 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4322 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4324 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4325 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4327 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4328 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4330 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4331 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4332 messages matching specified criteria.
4334 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4336 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4337 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4339 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4340 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4341 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4342 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4343 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4344 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4345 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4346 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4347 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4348 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4350 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4351 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4352 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4354 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4356 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4357 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4358 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4359 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4360 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4361 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4362 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4365 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4366 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4368 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4370 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4372 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4374 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4375 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4376 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4377 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4378 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4379 size of the count of files.
4381 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4383 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4386 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4387 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4388 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4389 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4391 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4392 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4393 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4395 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4396 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4397 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4398 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4399 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4401 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4402 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4404 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4405 will now be deprecated.
4407 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4409 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4410 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4411 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4413 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4414 with very large, slow to parse queues
4416 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4418 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4420 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4421 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4422 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4425 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4426 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4427 Sieve code now uses this.
4429 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4430 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4432 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4433 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4435 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4437 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4438 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4439 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4440 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4441 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4443 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4444 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4445 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4446 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4448 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4450 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4452 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4453 is preferred over IPv4.
4455 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4456 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4457 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4458 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4459 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4460 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4461 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4463 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4464 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4465 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4467 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4469 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4470 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4471 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4472 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4473 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4474 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4475 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4476 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4477 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4478 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4479 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4481 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4482 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4483 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4489 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4491 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4492 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4494 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4495 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4496 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4498 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4500 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4503 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4506 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4507 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4508 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4511 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4512 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4514 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4515 inside the third argument.
4517 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4518 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4521 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4522 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4524 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4525 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4527 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4529 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4530 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4533 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4535 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4536 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4537 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4538 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4539 identical. For example:
4541 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4543 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4544 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4545 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4547 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4548 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4549 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4550 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4552 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4553 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4554 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4557 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4559 o fixes some comments
4560 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4561 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4562 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4563 and documents the missing references header update
4567 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4568 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4571 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4572 Electronic Mail") by including:
4574 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4576 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4577 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4578 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4579 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4580 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4582 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4584 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4586 The auto-replied keyword:
4588 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4589 message by an automatic process,
4591 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4593 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4594 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4596 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4597 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4600 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4601 to the default Received: header definition.
4603 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4605 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4606 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4607 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4609 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4610 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4611 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4613 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4614 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4615 and treats the condition as false.
4617 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4619 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4620 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4621 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4622 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4623 not changing the active code.
4625 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4626 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4628 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4629 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4631 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4634 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4635 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4636 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4637 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4638 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4639 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4640 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4641 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4642 the text comparison.
4644 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4645 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4646 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4647 The same fix has been applied.
4653 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4654 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4657 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4658 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4660 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4662 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4663 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4664 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4665 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4666 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4668 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4669 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4670 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4671 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4674 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4682 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4683 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4685 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4687 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4689 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4690 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4691 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4693 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4694 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4695 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4697 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4698 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4701 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4702 ${stat: expansion item.
4704 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4705 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4707 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4708 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4711 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4713 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4716 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4717 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4719 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4721 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4722 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4723 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4724 the end of the subprocess.
4726 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4727 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4728 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4729 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4730 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4732 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4734 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4736 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4737 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4739 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4741 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4743 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4744 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4747 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4749 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4750 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4751 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4753 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4754 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4756 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4757 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4759 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4760 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4762 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4763 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4765 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4766 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4767 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4768 contributed by a Radius user.
4770 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4771 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4773 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4774 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4776 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4779 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4780 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4783 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4784 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4785 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4786 header lines when this was not necessary.
4788 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4790 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4791 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4792 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4795 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4798 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4799 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4800 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4801 return code was incorrect.
4803 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4805 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4807 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4809 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4811 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4812 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4813 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4814 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4815 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4818 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4820 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4821 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4822 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4823 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4824 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4825 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4826 which is clearly wrong.
4828 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4830 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4831 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4832 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4835 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4836 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4838 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4840 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4841 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4843 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4844 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4846 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4847 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4849 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4850 recipients, not senders.
4852 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4853 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4855 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4857 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4859 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4860 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4861 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4862 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4864 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4866 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4867 clock is set back in time.
4869 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4870 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4872 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4873 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4875 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4876 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4879 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4880 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4883 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4886 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4888 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4889 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4890 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4892 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4893 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4894 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4895 helo verification defer as a failure.
4897 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4898 actual error message.
4904 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4906 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4907 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4908 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4909 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4911 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4913 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4914 can still be requested.
4916 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4917 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4918 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4919 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4921 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4922 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4923 circumstances, but probably never did.
4925 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4926 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4927 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4930 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4932 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4933 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4935 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4937 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4939 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4940 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4941 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4942 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4943 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4944 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4946 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4947 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4948 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4949 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4950 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4951 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4953 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4954 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4956 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4957 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4959 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4960 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4962 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4964 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4966 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4968 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4970 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4972 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4974 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4976 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4977 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4978 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4980 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4981 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4982 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4983 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4985 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4986 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4987 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4989 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4990 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4991 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4992 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4994 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4995 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4998 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4999 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5000 should work with maildirs and everything.
5002 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5003 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5005 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5008 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5009 function for BDB 4.3.
5011 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5013 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5014 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5017 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5018 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5019 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5020 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5021 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5022 formatting function string_vformat().
5024 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5025 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5026 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5027 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5028 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5029 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5030 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5031 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5033 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5034 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5037 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5038 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5040 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5041 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5042 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5043 test. It is now used for both.
5045 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5046 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5047 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5048 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5049 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5050 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5052 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5053 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5054 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5057 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5058 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5059 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5061 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5062 experimental DomainKeys support:
5064 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5065 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5066 the control was given.
5068 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5070 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5072 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5074 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5075 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5076 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5079 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5080 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5081 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5082 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5083 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5084 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5087 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5088 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5089 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5090 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5091 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5092 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5094 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5095 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5096 do -d+all out of habit.
5098 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5099 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5102 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5103 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5104 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5105 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5106 record types that Exim uses.
5108 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5109 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5110 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5111 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5112 non-existent file that was broken.
5114 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5115 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5117 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5118 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5119 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5121 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5123 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5124 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5125 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5126 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5127 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5130 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5131 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5132 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5133 at a slight CPU cost.
5135 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5136 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5138 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5141 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5143 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5144 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5150 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5151 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5153 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5155 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5157 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5158 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5160 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5161 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5162 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5163 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5164 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5165 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5168 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5169 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5170 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5171 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5174 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5175 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5176 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5177 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5178 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5179 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5180 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5183 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5184 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5186 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5187 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5188 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5189 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5190 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5191 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5193 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5194 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5195 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5196 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5198 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5201 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5202 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5204 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5205 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5206 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5207 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5210 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5212 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5213 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5215 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5216 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5217 to what was transported.)
5219 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5221 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5222 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5223 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5224 spamd_address settings.
5226 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5227 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5228 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5229 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5230 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5232 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5234 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5235 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5236 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5237 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5238 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5240 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5241 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5243 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5244 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5245 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5246 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5247 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5248 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5249 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5252 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5253 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5254 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5255 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5256 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5257 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5258 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5261 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5263 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5264 driver and ACL definitions.
5266 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5267 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5269 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5270 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5271 understands it better than I do:
5273 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5274 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5276 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5277 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5278 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5279 => three warnings about OTP not working
5280 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5282 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5283 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5284 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5285 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5287 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5288 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5290 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5291 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5292 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5294 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5295 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5298 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5299 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5302 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5303 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5304 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5306 warn !verify = sender
5307 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5309 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5310 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5312 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5314 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5315 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5317 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5318 nomenclature these days.)
5320 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5321 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5323 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5324 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5325 . First host does not offer TLS;
5326 . First host accepts first address;
5327 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5328 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5329 . Second host accepts second address.
5330 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5331 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5334 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5335 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5336 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5337 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5338 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5340 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5341 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5343 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5344 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5346 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5347 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5348 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5350 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5351 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5354 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5356 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5357 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5358 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5359 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5360 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5361 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5362 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5364 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5365 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5366 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5367 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5368 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5370 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5371 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5374 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5375 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5376 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5377 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5378 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5379 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5381 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5383 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5384 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5385 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5386 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5387 printable escape sequences.
5389 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5390 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5393 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5394 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5397 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5398 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5399 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5400 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5401 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5403 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5404 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5405 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5407 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5409 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5410 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5413 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5414 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5415 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5416 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5417 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5418 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5419 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5420 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5421 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5424 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5425 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5426 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5427 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5431 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5432 ----------------------------------------
5434 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5435 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5436 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5437 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5438 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5439 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5442 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5443 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5444 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5445 historical information.
5451 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5453 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5454 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5456 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5457 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5460 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5461 filter fails to execute.
5463 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5464 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5465 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5466 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5467 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5469 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5471 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5472 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5473 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5474 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5476 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5477 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5478 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5479 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5480 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5482 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5484 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5486 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5487 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5488 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5489 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5491 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5492 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5493 sender verification.
5495 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5496 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5498 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5500 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5503 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5504 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5506 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5507 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5509 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5510 information about exactly what failed.
5512 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5514 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5515 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5516 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5518 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5519 It is now set to "smtps".
5521 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5522 ignore_target_hosts.
5524 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5525 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5526 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5527 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5530 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5531 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5532 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5534 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5535 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5536 wake it up if nothing else does.
5538 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5539 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5540 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5543 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5544 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5546 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5548 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5549 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5550 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5551 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5552 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5553 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5554 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5555 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5557 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5558 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5559 than one IP address.
5561 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5562 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5563 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5564 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5566 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5567 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5568 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5569 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5570 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5573 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5574 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5575 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5576 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5578 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5579 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5582 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5583 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5584 $sender_host_address.
5586 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5587 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5588 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5589 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5590 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5593 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5595 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5596 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5598 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5599 just the host names, not the priorities.
5601 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5602 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5603 controlled by a keyword.
5605 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5606 multiple records are returned.
5608 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5609 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5612 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5614 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5615 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5617 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5618 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5619 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5621 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5623 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5625 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5627 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5628 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5629 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5630 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5631 because the tests only now provoked it.
5633 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5634 (this can affect the format of dates).
5636 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5637 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5638 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5639 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5641 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5643 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5644 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5645 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5646 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5648 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5649 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5650 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5652 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5655 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5656 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5657 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5658 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5659 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5660 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5663 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5664 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5665 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5668 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5669 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5670 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5672 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5673 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5674 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5675 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5676 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5677 so I produce this patch..."
5679 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5680 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5683 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5684 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5685 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5686 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5689 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5691 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5692 long debug lines gets shown.
5694 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5695 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5697 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5699 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5700 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5701 of $primary_hostname.
5703 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5704 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5705 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5706 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5707 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5708 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5709 by change 4.50/55 above.
5711 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5712 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5713 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5714 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5715 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5716 running as the user.
5719 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5720 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5721 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5724 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5725 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5727 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5728 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5729 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5730 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5731 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5733 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5734 This has been fixed.
5736 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5737 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5738 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5739 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5742 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5744 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5745 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5746 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5747 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5749 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5750 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5752 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5753 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5754 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5756 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5757 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5758 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5761 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5762 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5763 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5765 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5766 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5767 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5768 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5770 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5771 during host lookups.
5773 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5774 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5776 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5778 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5779 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5780 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5781 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5782 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5785 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5786 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5788 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5789 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5790 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5792 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5794 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5795 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5796 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5797 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5798 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5799 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5802 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5803 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5804 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5805 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5806 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5808 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5811 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5813 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5814 "vacation" handling.
5816 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5817 OS variants using glibc.
5819 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5822 ----------------------------------------------------
5823 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5824 ----------------------------------------------------
5830 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5831 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5834 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5835 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5838 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5839 filter fails to execute.
5841 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5842 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5843 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5844 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5845 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5847 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5848 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5849 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5850 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5852 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5853 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5854 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5855 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5856 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5858 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5860 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5861 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5862 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5863 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5865 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5866 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5867 sender verification.
5869 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5870 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5872 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5873 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5875 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5876 ignore_target_hosts.
5878 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5879 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5880 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5881 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5884 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5885 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5886 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5888 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5889 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5890 wake it up if nothing else does.
5892 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5893 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5894 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5897 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5898 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5900 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5902 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5903 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5906 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5907 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5910 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5911 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5912 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5913 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5914 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5917 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5918 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5921 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5922 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5923 $sender_host_address.
5925 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5927 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5928 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5929 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5931 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5934 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5935 (this can affect the format of dates).
5937 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5938 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5939 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5940 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5942 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5943 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5944 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5946 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5947 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5948 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5949 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5951 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5952 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5953 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5955 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5958 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5959 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5960 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5961 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5962 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5963 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5966 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5967 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5968 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5969 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5972 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5973 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5974 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5975 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5976 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5977 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5978 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5980 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5981 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5982 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5983 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5984 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5985 running as the user.
5988 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5989 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5990 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5993 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5994 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5995 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5996 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5997 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5999 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6000 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6001 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6002 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6005 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6006 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6007 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6008 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6009 because the tests only now provoked it.
6015 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6016 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6017 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6018 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6019 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6020 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6021 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6023 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6024 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6027 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6029 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6031 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6032 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6035 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6036 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6037 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6038 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6039 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6041 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6042 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6044 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6046 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6048 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6051 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6052 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6054 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6055 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6056 affecting debugging statements).
6058 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6060 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6061 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6062 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6063 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6064 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6065 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6066 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6067 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6068 after the received time, and all would be well.
6070 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6071 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6072 condition in an expansion string.
6074 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6076 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6077 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6078 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6079 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6080 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6081 job under whatever limits there are.
6083 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6085 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6088 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6089 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6090 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6091 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6094 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6095 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6096 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6097 binary data in such strings.
6099 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6101 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6102 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6103 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6104 failure, which is pointless.
6106 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6108 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6110 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6111 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6112 Sender: header lines.
6114 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6115 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6116 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6118 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6119 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6120 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6121 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6122 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6125 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6126 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6127 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6128 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6129 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6131 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6132 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6133 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6136 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6137 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6139 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6140 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6142 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6144 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6146 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6148 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6151 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6153 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6155 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6156 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6157 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6158 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6160 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6161 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6167 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6168 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6169 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6171 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6172 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6173 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6174 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6175 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6176 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6178 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6179 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6180 verification failure".
6182 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6183 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6184 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6185 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6187 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6188 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6189 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6190 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6191 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6192 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6193 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6194 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6195 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6196 treated as a timeout.
6198 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6199 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6200 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6201 not set for Exim filters).
6203 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6204 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6205 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6207 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6209 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6210 try to make them clearer.
6212 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6213 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6215 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6217 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6219 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6220 only the Cygwin environment.
6222 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6223 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6224 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6225 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6226 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6228 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6229 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6230 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6231 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6232 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6233 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6234 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6236 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6237 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6239 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6241 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6242 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6243 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6245 To: susanne@some.where
6247 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6248 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6249 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6250 of addresses in From: header lines).
6252 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6253 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6254 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6256 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6257 treated as non-personal.
6259 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6260 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6262 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6264 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6266 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6267 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6268 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6270 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6271 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6273 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6274 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6275 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6276 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6277 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6278 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6280 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6281 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6282 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6283 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6284 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6285 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6286 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6287 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6289 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6291 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6292 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6294 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6295 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6296 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6298 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6299 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6301 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6302 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6303 rather than long int.
6305 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6307 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6313 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6314 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6315 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6316 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6317 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6318 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6324 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6325 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6327 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6328 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6329 socklen_t is defined.
6331 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6334 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6337 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6338 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6339 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6340 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6341 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6343 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6344 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6345 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6346 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6348 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6349 of flapping under certain conditions.
6351 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6352 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6353 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6355 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6357 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6359 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6360 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6361 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6362 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6364 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6365 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6366 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6367 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6368 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6369 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6370 preserved with the message after it was received.
6372 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6373 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6374 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6375 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6376 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6377 test suite worked just fine.
6379 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6380 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6381 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6383 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6384 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6387 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6388 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6389 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6390 does not fully solve it.
6392 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6393 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6394 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6395 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6396 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6398 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6399 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6400 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6402 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6403 string, for example:
6405 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6407 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6408 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6409 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6410 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6411 the routers could not see them.
6413 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6414 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6416 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6417 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6420 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6421 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6422 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6423 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6424 that needed quoting.
6426 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6427 was not being matched caselessly.
6429 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6432 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6433 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6434 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6435 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6436 when use_sender is false.
6438 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6440 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6442 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6444 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6445 the configuration file.
6447 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6448 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6450 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6452 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6453 bytes in the message body.
6455 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6456 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6459 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6461 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6463 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6464 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6465 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6466 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6473 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6474 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6476 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6477 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6478 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6479 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6480 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6482 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6483 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6485 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6486 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6487 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6489 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6490 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6491 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6493 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6496 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6497 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6498 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6499 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6500 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6501 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6502 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6508 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6509 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6510 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6511 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6512 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6513 default (and expected) setting.
6515 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6516 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6517 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6518 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6520 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6521 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6523 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6526 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6527 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6528 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6529 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6530 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6531 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6533 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6534 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6535 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6537 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6538 part (NOT match_host).
6540 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6542 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6543 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6544 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6545 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6546 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6547 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6548 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6549 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6550 the same named file.
6552 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6553 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6556 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6557 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6558 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6559 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6562 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6563 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6564 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6566 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6568 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6570 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6572 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6573 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6575 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6576 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6577 before starting the TLS session.
6579 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6581 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6582 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6584 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6585 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6586 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6587 colon in the middle).
6593 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6594 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6595 multiple configurations are in use.
6597 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6598 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6599 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6600 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6601 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6602 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6604 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6605 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6607 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6608 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6609 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6611 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6612 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6615 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6616 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6618 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6620 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6621 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6623 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6631 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6632 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6633 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6634 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6635 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6637 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6640 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6641 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6642 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6643 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6644 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6645 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6647 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6648 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6649 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6650 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6651 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6652 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6653 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6656 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6657 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6658 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6659 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6660 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6662 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6664 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6665 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6666 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6668 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6670 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6671 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6672 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6675 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6676 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6678 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6679 Three changes have been made:
6681 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6682 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6683 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6684 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6685 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6687 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6690 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6691 the modified behaviour.
6697 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6700 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6701 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6703 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6704 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6705 try to track down a specific problem.
6707 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6708 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6709 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6711 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6714 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6715 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6716 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6717 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6718 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6719 some earlier ones do not.
6721 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6723 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6724 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6725 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6726 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6727 address literals are enabled, of course).
6729 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6731 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6732 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6733 by a command such as
6737 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6739 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6741 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6742 remained set. It is now erased.
6744 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6745 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6747 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6748 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6749 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6750 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6751 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6752 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6753 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6754 appropriate error code.
6756 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6757 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6758 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6759 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6760 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6761 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6763 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6764 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6765 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6767 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6768 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6769 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6770 terminate the header.
6772 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6773 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6774 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6776 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6777 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6778 (4.30/29). In particular:
6780 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6783 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6784 to write a maildirsize file.
6786 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6787 the transport, the new value overrides.
6789 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6792 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6793 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6794 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6797 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6798 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6799 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6802 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6803 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6804 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6806 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6807 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6810 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6811 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6812 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6814 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6816 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6818 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6820 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6821 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6824 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6825 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6826 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6827 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6828 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6829 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6830 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6833 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6834 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6835 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6836 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6837 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6840 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6841 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6842 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6843 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6844 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6845 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6846 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6847 cached value only when the same options are set.
6849 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6851 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6852 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6853 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6854 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6855 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6857 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6858 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6859 it is clearly obsolete.
6861 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6864 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6865 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6866 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6869 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6870 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6871 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6872 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6873 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6875 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6876 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6877 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6878 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6880 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6882 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6884 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6885 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6888 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6889 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6890 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6891 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6892 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6893 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6896 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6897 with the -f command-line option.
6899 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6900 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6901 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6902 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6903 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6904 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6906 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6907 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6910 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6911 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6912 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6913 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6914 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6915 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6916 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6917 buffer is too small.
6919 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6920 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6922 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6923 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6924 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6925 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6926 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6927 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6928 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6929 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6930 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6932 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6933 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6934 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6936 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6937 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6940 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6941 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6942 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6943 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6944 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6946 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6947 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6948 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6949 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6952 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6954 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6956 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6957 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6959 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6960 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6961 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6963 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6964 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6965 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6966 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6967 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6969 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6970 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6971 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6972 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6973 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6974 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6975 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6977 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6978 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6979 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6980 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6981 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6982 the test of how many are available.
6984 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6985 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6986 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6987 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6988 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6989 new message is started.
6991 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6992 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6994 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6995 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6997 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6998 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6999 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7002 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7003 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7004 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7005 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7006 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7007 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7008 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7010 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7011 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7012 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7013 interpreted as octal.
7015 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7018 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7019 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7020 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7021 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7022 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7023 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7025 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7026 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7027 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7028 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7030 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7031 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7032 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7033 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7035 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7036 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7039 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7040 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7042 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7044 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7045 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7046 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7047 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7049 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7050 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7051 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7052 supplied", which is not helpful.
7054 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7055 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7056 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7058 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7059 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7060 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7061 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7062 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7063 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7064 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7065 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7067 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7068 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7069 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7070 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7071 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7073 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7074 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7075 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7076 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7077 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7078 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7080 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7081 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7082 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7084 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7086 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7087 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7088 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7091 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7093 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7094 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7095 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7096 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7097 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7098 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7099 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7100 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7102 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7103 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7104 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7105 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7106 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7108 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7111 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7112 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7113 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7114 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7115 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7116 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7117 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7118 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7119 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7125 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7126 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7127 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7129 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7132 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7133 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7134 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7136 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7137 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7138 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7139 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7140 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7141 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7143 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7144 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7145 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7146 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7147 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7148 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7149 the Exim test suite.
7151 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7152 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7153 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7154 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7156 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7157 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7158 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7159 specify it in this variable.
7161 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7162 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7163 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7164 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7166 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7167 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7168 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7169 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7171 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7172 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7173 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7174 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7175 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7177 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7179 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7182 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7183 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7184 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7185 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7186 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7188 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7189 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7191 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7192 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7193 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7194 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7195 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7197 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7198 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7200 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7201 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7202 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7204 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7205 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7207 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7208 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7210 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7211 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7212 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7214 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7215 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7217 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7218 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7219 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7220 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7222 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7224 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7225 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7226 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7227 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7229 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7231 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7232 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7234 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7236 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7237 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7238 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7239 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7240 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7241 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7243 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7245 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7246 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7249 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7251 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7252 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7254 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7255 550 Sender verify failed
7257 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7258 the final line of the response.
7260 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7261 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7262 all other user lookups.
7264 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7267 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7268 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7269 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7270 result into an int without checking.
7272 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7273 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7274 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7276 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7277 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7278 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7279 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7281 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7284 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7285 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7287 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7288 to the empty sender.
7290 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7291 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7292 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7293 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7294 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7295 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7296 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7299 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7300 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7301 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7302 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7305 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7306 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7308 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7311 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7312 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7314 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7316 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7317 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7320 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7321 as soon as it is encountered.
7323 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7325 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7328 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7329 recognizes a tab character.
7331 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7332 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7333 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7334 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7336 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7338 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7341 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7343 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7345 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7346 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7349 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7350 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7351 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7352 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7353 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7355 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7356 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7358 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7359 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7360 list (.included file names were always shown).
7362 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7363 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7364 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7367 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7368 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7370 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7372 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7374 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7376 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7377 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7378 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7379 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7380 failures to open the logs.
7382 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7383 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7384 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7385 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7386 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7387 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7388 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7394 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7395 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7396 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7399 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7400 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7401 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7403 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7404 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7405 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7407 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7408 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7409 causing some misleading effects.
7411 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7412 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7413 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7415 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7416 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7417 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7418 queue-runner function directly.
7424 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7427 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7428 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7429 was always written to the default place.
7431 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7432 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7433 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7435 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7437 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7439 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7440 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7441 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7443 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7444 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7447 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7448 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7449 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7451 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7452 command line option is disabled.
7454 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7455 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7457 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7459 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7461 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7462 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7464 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7466 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7467 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7468 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7469 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7470 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7471 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7473 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7474 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7477 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7478 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7480 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7481 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7483 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7484 received was valid base64.
7486 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7487 name of the variable that was being set.
7489 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7491 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7492 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7493 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7494 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7495 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7496 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7498 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7500 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7501 nor realm was specified.
7503 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7504 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7505 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7506 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7508 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7509 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7510 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7512 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7513 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7514 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7516 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7517 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7518 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7519 some systems use these upper case variants.
7521 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7522 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7523 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7524 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7526 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7528 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7529 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7531 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7532 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7535 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7537 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7538 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7539 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7540 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7542 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7545 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7546 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7547 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7549 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7550 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7552 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7553 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7554 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7555 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7557 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7558 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7559 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7561 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7563 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7564 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7565 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7566 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7569 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7570 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7571 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7573 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7575 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7576 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7578 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7579 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7581 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7582 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7583 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7584 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7585 when emails are that large.
7592 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7593 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7595 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7596 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7597 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7599 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7600 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7601 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7603 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7604 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7605 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7606 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7607 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7609 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7610 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7611 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7612 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7613 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7616 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7617 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7618 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7619 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7620 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7621 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7622 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7623 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7624 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7625 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7626 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7627 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7628 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7629 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7631 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7632 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7635 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7636 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7637 error should be diagnosed.
7639 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7640 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7641 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7642 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7643 appeared instead of "NULL".
7645 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7646 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7647 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7648 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7649 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7650 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7653 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7654 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7655 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7661 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7662 or receiver verification errors.
7664 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7667 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7668 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7669 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7670 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7672 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7673 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7674 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7675 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7676 shouldn't happen again.
7678 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7679 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7680 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7682 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7683 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7685 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7687 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7688 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7690 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7691 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7694 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7695 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7696 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7698 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7699 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7700 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7701 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7703 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7704 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7705 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7706 to define what should happen).
7708 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7709 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7710 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7712 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7714 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7716 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7717 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7719 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7720 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7721 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7722 structure in all cases.
7724 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7725 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7726 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7727 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7729 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7730 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7733 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7734 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7736 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7737 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7739 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7740 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7741 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7743 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7744 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7745 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7747 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7748 the book and for uniformity.
7750 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7752 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7753 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7754 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7755 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7756 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7757 non-existent command as the problem.
7759 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7760 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7761 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7763 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7765 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7766 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7767 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7769 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7770 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7771 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7772 timestamps using strftime().
7774 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7775 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7777 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7778 transport-time rewrites.
7780 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7781 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7782 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7783 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7785 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7786 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7788 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7789 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7790 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7791 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7794 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7795 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7796 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7797 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7798 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7799 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7800 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7802 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7803 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7804 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7805 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7806 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7808 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7809 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7810 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7811 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7812 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7813 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7814 remaining text gets split now.
7816 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7817 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7818 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7819 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7821 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7822 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7823 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7824 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7827 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7828 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7829 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7830 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7831 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7832 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7833 passed through if needed.
7835 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7836 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7837 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7838 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7839 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7840 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7842 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7843 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7844 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7845 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7846 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7848 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7849 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7850 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7851 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7852 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7854 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7855 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7858 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7859 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7860 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7861 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7862 mayhem of various kinds.
7864 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7865 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7866 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7867 the right test for positive values.
7869 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7870 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7871 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7872 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7873 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7874 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7875 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7876 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7877 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7878 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7881 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7884 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7885 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7888 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7889 the existing equality matching.
7891 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7892 dealing with inode numbers.
7894 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7895 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7896 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7898 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7899 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7900 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7901 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7904 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7905 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7906 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7907 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7908 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7909 relay addresses has also been removed.
7911 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7913 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7914 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7915 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7917 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7918 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7919 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7920 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7921 processing applies to CR:
7923 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7924 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7926 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7927 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7928 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7929 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7931 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7932 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7933 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7935 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7936 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7937 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7938 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7939 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7940 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7943 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7946 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7947 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7948 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7949 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7952 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7954 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7956 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7958 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7959 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7960 not considered personal.
7962 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7964 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7966 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7968 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7969 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7970 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7971 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7972 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7973 header lines, and spool format errors.
7975 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7976 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7977 for more flexibility.
7979 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7980 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7981 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7983 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7986 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7987 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7988 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7989 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7990 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7991 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7992 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7993 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7994 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7996 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7997 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7998 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7999 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8000 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8001 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8002 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8004 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8005 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8006 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8008 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8009 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8010 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8011 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8012 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8013 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8014 instead of killing the process with assert().
8016 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8017 than Unicode encoding.
8019 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8020 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8021 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8022 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8024 77. Added process_log_path.
8026 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8027 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8029 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8030 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8032 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8033 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8034 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8036 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8037 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8038 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8039 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8040 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8043 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8044 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8047 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8048 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8049 they will be used during message reception.
8055 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.