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.
8 JH/01 Support list of dkim results in the dkim_status ACL condition, making
9 it more usable in the data ACL.
11 JH/02 Bug 3040: Handle error on close of the spool data file during reception.
12 Previously This was only logged, on the assumption that errors would be
13 seen for a previous fflush(). However, a fuse filesystem has been
14 reported as showing this an error for the fclose(). The spool is now in
15 an uncertain state, and we have logged and responded acceptance. Change
16 this to respond with a temp-reject, wipe spoolfiles, and log the error
19 JH/03 Bug 3030: Fix handling of DNS servfail respons for DANE TLSA. When hit
20 during a recipient verify callout, a QUIT command was attempted on the
21 now-closed callout channel, causing a paniclog entry.
23 JH/04 Bug 3039: Fix handling of of an empty log_reject_target, with
24 a connection_reject log_selector, under tls_on_connect. Previously
25 with this combination, when the connect ACL rejected, a spurious
26 paniclog entry was made.
28 JH/05 Fix TLS resumption for TLS-on-connect. This was broken by the advent
29 of loadbalancer-detection for resumption, in 4.96 - which tries to
30 use the EHLO response. SMTPS does not have one at the time it is starting
31 TLS. Change the default for the smtp transport host_name_extract option
32 to be a static string, for TLS-on-connect cases; meaning that resumption
33 will always be attempted (unless deliberately overriden).
35 JH/06 Bug 3054: Fix dnsdb lookup for a TXT record with multiple chunks, with a
36 chunk-separator specification. This was broken by hardening introduced
39 JH/07 Bug 3050: Fix -bp for old message_id format spoolfiles. Previously it
40 included the -H with the id; this also messed up exiqgrep.
42 JH/08 Bug 3056: Tighten up parsing of DKIM DNS records. Previously, whitespace
43 was not properly skipped and empty elements would cause mis-parsing.
44 Tighten parsing of DKIM header records. Previously, all but lowercase
45 alpha chars would be ignored in potential tag names.
47 JH/09 Bug 3057: Add heuristic for spotting mistyped IPv6 addresses in lists
48 being searched. Previously we only had one for IPv4 addresses. Per the
49 documentation, the error results by default in a no-match result for the
50 list. It is logged if the unknown_in_list log_selector is used.
52 JH/10 Bug 3058: Ensure that a failing expansion in a router "set" option defers
53 the routing operation. Previously it would silently stop routing the
56 JH/11 Bug 3046: Fix queue-runs. Previously, the arrivel of a notification or
57 info-request event close in time to a scheduled run timer could result in
58 the latter being missed, and no further queue scheduled runs being
59 initiated. This ouwld be more likely on high-load systems.
61 JH/12 Refuse to accept a line "dot, LF" as end-of-DATA unless operating in
62 LF-only mode (as detected from the first header line). Previously we did
63 accept that in (normal) CRLF mode; this has been raised as a possible
64 attack scenario (under the name "smtp smuggling").
66 JH/13 Add an fdatasync call for the received message data file in spool, before
67 loggging reception and sending the SMTP ack. Previously we only flushed
68 the stdio buffer so there was still the possibility of a disk error.
70 JH/14 Bug 3061: Avoid a split log line when trying to rewrite a malformed
71 address. Previously, for the last address in a header line (commonly
72 there is only one) the terminating newline was part of the logged
75 JH/15 Bug 3061: Ensure a log line is written for a malformed address in a
76 header, when parsing for address-qualification. Previously one was only
77 written if there were rewrite rules.
79 JH/16 Two-phase queue runs are now reported in the daemon startup log line and
82 JH/17 Bug 3064: Fix combination of "-q<period> -R <recipients>". Introduction of
83 the multiple-queue-runners facility for 4.97 broke this, giving only a
84 one-time run of the queue.
86 JH/18 Bug 3068: Log a warning for use of deprecated syntax in query-style
89 JH/19 Fix TLS startup. When the last expansion done before the initiation of a
90 TLS session resulted in a forced-fail, a misleading error was logged for
91 the expansino of tls_certificates. This would affect the common case of
92 that option being set (main-section options) but not having any variable
93 parts. It could also potentially affect tls_privatekeys. The underlyding
94 coding errors go back to 4.90 but were only exposed in 4.97.
96 JH/20 Bug 3047: A recent (somewhere between 10.34 and 10.42) version of the
97 pcre2 library starting allocating 20kB rather than 112 bytes per match
98 call, which broke the 2GB total limitation on Exim's memory management
99 when a user had over 104207 messages stored and the appendfile
100 maildir_quota_directory_regex option is in use. Release the allocated
101 memory every thosand files to avoid this.
102 The same issue arises with the ACL regex condition, which is applied
103 to every line of a received message.
105 JH/21 Bug 3059: Fix crash in smtp transport. When running for a message for
106 which all recipients had been handled (itself an issue) a null-pointer
107 deref was done on trying to write a retry record. Fix that by counting
108 the outstanding recipients before trying to transmit the message.
109 The situation arose for a second MX try within a transport run, when the
110 first had perm-rejected a recipient (the only one for the connection, in
111 the case seen) during pipelining, and then closed the TCP connection.
112 The transport classified that as an I/O error, leaving the message
113 outstanding but having marked up the recipient as dealt-with. It then
114 tried another MX because of the I/O error. Fix this by converting the
115 message-level status to ok if there was a close but all recipients were
116 dealt with. Thanks to Wolfgand Breyha for debug runs.
118 JH/22 The ESMTP_LIMITS facility (RFC 9422) is promoted from experimental status
119 and is now controlled by the build-time option DISABLE_ESMTP_LIMITS.
121 JH/23 Bug 3066: Avoid leaking lookup database credentials to log.
123 JH/24 Bug 3081: Fix a delivery process crash. When the router "errors_to"
124 option specified a fixed address, later rewriting on that address would
125 trip on the configuration data being readonly. Instead of modifying
126 in-place, copy data. Found and fixed by Peter Benie.
128 JH/25 Bug 3079: Fix crash in dbmnz. When a key was present for zero-length
129 data a null pointer was followed. Find and testcase by Sebastian Bugge.
131 JH/26 Fix encoding for an AUTH parameter on a MAIL FROM command. Previously
132 decimal 127 chars were not encoded, and lowercase hex was used for
133 encoded values. Outstanding since at least 1999.
135 JH/27 Fix crash in logging. When a message with a large number of recipients
136 had been received, and logging of recipients is enabled, the buffer used
137 for logging could reach limit. A read using a null pointer would then
138 be done, resulting in a crash of the receiving process before an SMTP
139 ACK for the message was returned to the sending system. Duplicate
140 messages were created as a result.
141 Find and debug help by Mateusz Krawczyk
147 JH/01 The hosts_connection_nolog main option now also controls "no MAIL in
148 SMTP connection" log lines.
150 JH/02 Option default value updates:
151 - queue_fast_ramp (main) true (was false)
152 - remote_max_parallel (main) 4 (was 2)
154 JH/03 Cache static regex pattern compilations, for use by ACLs.
156 JH/04 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
157 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
158 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
160 JH/05 Follow symlinks for placing a watch on TLS creds files. This means
161 (under Linux) we watch the dir containing the final file; previously
162 it would be the dir with the first symlink. We still do not monitor
165 JH/06 Check for bad chars in rDNS for sender_host_name. The OpenBSD (at least)
166 dn_expand() is happy to pass them through.
168 JH/07 OpenSSL Fix auto-reload of changed server OCSP proof. Previously, if
169 the file with the proof had an unchanged name, the new proof(s) were
170 loaded on top of the old ones (and nover used; the old ones were stapled).
172 JH/08 Bug 2915: Fix use-after-free for $regex<n> variables. Previously when
173 more than one message arrived in a single connection a reference from
174 the earlier message could be re-used. Often a sigsegv resulted.
175 These variables were introduced in Exim 4.87.
176 Debug help from Graeme Fowler.
178 JH/09 Fix ${filter } for conditions that modify $value. Previously the
179 modified version would be used in construction the result, and a memory
182 JH/10 GnuTLS: fix for (IOT?) clients offering no TLS extensions at all.
183 Find and fix by Jasen Betts.
185 JH/11 OpenSSL: fix for ancient clients needing TLS support for versions earlier
186 than TLSv1,2, Previously, more-recent versions of OpenSSL were permitting
187 the systemwide configuration to override the Exim config.
189 HS/01 Bug 2728: Introduce EDITME option "DMARC_API" to work around incompatible
190 API changes in libopendmarc.
192 JH/12 Bug 2930: Fix daemon startup. When started from any process apart from
193 pid 1, in the normal "background daemon" mode, having to drop process-
194 group leadership also lost track of needing to create listener sockets.
196 JH/13 Bug 2929: Fix using $recipients after ${run...}. A change made for 4.96
197 resulted in the variable appearing empty. Find and fix by Ruben Jenster.
199 JH/14 Bug 2933: Fix regex substring match variables for null matches. Since 4.96
200 a capture group which obtained no text (eg. "(abc)*" matching zero
201 occurrences) could cause a segfault if the corresponding $<n> was
204 JH/15 Fix argument parsing for ${run } expansion. Previously, when an argument
205 included a close-brace character (eg. it itself used an expansion) an
208 JH/16 Move running the smtp connect ACL to before, for TLS-on-connect ports,
209 starting TLS. Previously it was after, meaning that attackers on such
210 ports had to be screened using the host_reject_connection main config
211 option. The new sequence aligns better with the STARTTLS behaviour, and
212 permits defences against crypto-processing load attacks, even though it
213 is strictly an incompatible change.
214 Also, avoid sending any SMTP fail response for either the connect ACL
215 or host_reject_connection, for TLS-on-connect ports.
217 JH/17 Permit the ACL "encrypted" condition to be used in a HELO/EHLO ACL,
218 Previously this was not permitted, but it makes reasonable sense.
219 While there, restore a restriction on using it from a connect ACL; given
220 the change JH/16 it could only return false (and before 4.91 was not
223 JH/18 Fix a fencepost error in logging. Previously (since 4.92) when a log line
224 was exactly sized compared to the log buffer, a crash occurred with the
225 misleading message "bad memory reference; pool not found".
226 Found and traced by Jasen Betts.
228 JH/19 Bug 2911: Fix a recursion in DNS lookups. Previously, if the main option
229 dns_again_means_nonexist included an element causing a DNS lookup which
230 itself returned DNS_AGAIN, unbounded recursion occurred. Possible results
231 included (though probably not limited to) a process crash from stack
232 memory limit, or from excessive open files. Replace this with a paniclog
233 whine (as this is likely a configuration error), and returning
236 JH/20 Bug 2954: (OpenSSL) Fix setting of explicit EC curve/group. Previously
237 this always failed, probably leading to the usual downgrade to in-clear
240 JH/21 Fix TLSA lookups. Previously dns_again_means_nonexist would affect
241 SERVFAIL results, which breaks the downgrade resistance of DANE. Change
242 to not checking that list for these lookups.
244 JH/22 Bug 2434: Add connection-elapsed "D=" element to more connection
247 JH/23 Fix crash in string expansions. Previously, if an empty variable was
248 immediately followed by an expansion operator, a null-indirection read
249 was done, killing the process.
251 JH/24 Bug 2997: When built with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO, bounce messages can
252 include an SMTP response string which is longer than that supported
253 by the delivering transport. Alleviate by wrapping such lines before
256 JH/25 Bug 2827: Restrict size of References: header in bounce messages to 998
257 chars (RFC limit). Previously a limit of 12 items was made, which with
258 a not-impossible References: in the message being bounced could still
259 be over-large and get stopped in the transport.
261 JH/26 For a ${readsocket } in TLS mode, send a TLS Close Alert before the TCP
262 close. Previously a bare socket close was done.
264 JH/27 Fix ${srs_encode ..}. Previously it would give a bad result for one day
267 JH/28 Bug 2996: Fix a crash in the smtp transport. When finding that the
268 message being considered for delivery was already being handled by
269 another process, and having an SMTP connection already open, the function
270 to close it tried to use an uninitialized variable. This would afftect
271 high-volume sites more, especially when running mailing-list-style loads.
272 Pollution of logs was the major effect, as the other process delivered
273 the message. Found and partly investigated by Graeme Fowler.
275 JH/29 Change format of the internal ID used for message identification. The old
276 version only supported 31 bits for a PID element; the new 64 (on systems
277 which can use Base-62 encoding, which is all currently supported ones
278 but not Darwin (MacOS) or Cygwin, which have case-insensitive filesystems
279 and must use Base-36). The new ID is 23 characters rather than 16, and is
280 visible in various places - notably logs, message headers, and spool file
281 names. Various of the ancillary utilities also have to know the format.
282 As well as the expanded PID portion, the sub-second part of the time
283 recorded in the ID is expanded to support finer precision. Theoretically
284 this permits a receive rate from a single comms channel of better than the
286 The major timestamp part of the ID is not changed; at 6 characters it is
287 usable until about year 3700.
288 Updating from previously releases is fully supported: old-format spool
289 files are still usable, and the utilities support both formats. New
290 message will use the new format. The one hints-DB file type which uses
291 message-IDs (the transport wait- DB) will be discarded if an old-format ID
292 is seen; new ones will be built with only new-format IDs.
293 Optionally, a utility can be used to convert spool files from old to new,
294 but this is only an efficiency measure not a requirement for operation
295 Downgrading from new to old requires running a provided utility, having
296 first stopped all operations. This will convert any spool files from new
297 back to old (losing time-precision and PID information) and remove any
298 wait- hints databases.
300 JH/30 Bug 3006: Fix handling of JSON strings having embedded commas. Previously
301 we treated them as item separators when parsing for a list item, but they
302 need to be protected by the doublequotes. While there, add handling for
305 JH/31 Bug 2998: Fix ${utf8clean:...} to disallow UTF-16 surrogate codepoints.
306 Found and fixed by Jasen Betts. No testcase for this as my usual text
307 editor insists on emitting only valid UTF-8.
309 JH/32 Fix "tls_dhparam = none" under GnuTLS. At least with 3.7.9 this gave
310 a null-indirection SIGSEGV for the receive process.
312 JH/33 Fix free for live variable $value created by a ${run ...} expansion during
313 -bh use. Internal checking would spot this and take a panic.
315 JH/34 Bug 3013: Fix use of $recipients within arguments for ${run...}.
316 In 4.96 this would expand to empty.
318 JH/35 Bug 3014: GnuTLS: fix expiry date for an auto-generated server
319 certificate. Find and fix by Andreas Metzler.
321 JH/36 Add ARC info to DMARC hostory records.
323 JH/37 Bug 3016: Avoid sending DSN when message was accepted under fakereject
324 or fakedefer. Previously the sender could discover that the message
325 had in fact been accepted.
327 JH/38 Taint-track intermediate values from the peer in multi-stage authentation
328 sequences. Previously the input was not noted as being tainted; notably
329 this resulted in behaviour of LOGIN vs. PLAIN being inconsistent under
330 bad coding of authenticators.
332 JH/39 Bug 3023: Fix crash induced by some combinations of zero-length strings
333 and ${tr...}. Found and diagnosed by Heiko Schlichting.
335 JH/40 Bug 2999: Fix a possible OOB write in the external authenticator, which
336 could be triggered by externally-supplied input. Found by Trend Micro.
339 JH/41 Bug 3000: Fix a possible OOB write in the SPA authenticator, which could
340 be triggered by externally-controlled input. Found by Trend Micro.
343 JH/42 Bug 3001: Fix a possible OOB read in the SPA authenticator, which could
344 be triggered by externally-controlled input. Found by Trend Micro.
347 JH/43 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
348 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
349 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
351 JH/44 Bug 3033: Harden dnsdb lookups against crafted DNS responses.
354 HS/02 Fix string_is_ip_address() CVE-2023-42117 (Bug 3031)
360 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique message IDs) from
361 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
362 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
365 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
366 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
368 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
369 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
370 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
371 not be modified by local-scan code.
373 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
374 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
376 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
377 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
380 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
381 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
383 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
384 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
387 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
388 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
389 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
391 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
392 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
393 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
395 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
396 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
397 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
398 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
399 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
400 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
401 Assorted crashes happen.
403 JH/11 Fix use of $sender_host_name in daemon process. When used in certain
404 main-section options or in a connect ACL, the value from the first ever
405 connection was never replaced for subsequent connections. Found by
408 JH/12 Bug 2838: Fix for i32lp64 hard-align platforms. Found for SPARC Linux,
409 though only once PCRE2 was introduced: the memory accounting used under
410 debug offset allocations by an int, giving a hard trap in early startup.
411 Change to using a size_t. Debug and fix by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.
413 JH/13 Bug 2845: Fix handling of tls_require_ciphers for OpenSSL when a value
414 with underbars is given. The write-protection of configuration introduced
415 in 4.95 trapped when normalisation was applied to an option not needing
418 JH/14 Bug 1895: TLS: Deprecate RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
420 JH/15 Fix a resource leak in *BSD. An off-by-one error resulted in the daemon
421 failing to close the certificates directory, every hour or any time it
424 JH/16 Debugging initiated by an ACL control now continues through into routing
425 and transport processes. Previously debugging stopped any time Exim
426 re-execs, or for processing a queued message.
428 JH/17 The "expand" debug selector now gives more detail, specifically on the
429 result of expansion operators and items.
431 JH/18 Bug 2751: Fix include_directory in redirect routers. Previously a
432 bad comparison between the option value and the name of the file to
433 be included was done, and a mismatch was wrongly identified.
434 4.88 to 4.95 are affected.
436 JH/19 Support for Berkeley DB versions 1 and 2 is withdrawn.
438 JH/20 When built with NDBM for hints DB's check for nonexistence of a name
439 supplied as the db file-pair basename. Previously, if a directory
440 path was given, for example via the autoreply "once" option, the DB
441 file.pag and file.dir files would be created in that directory's
444 JH/21 Remove the "allow_insecure_tainted_data" main config option and the
445 "taint" log_selector. These were previously deprecated.
447 JH/22 Fix static address-list lookups to properly return the matched item.
448 Previously only the domain part was returned.
450 JH/23 Bug 2864: FreeBSD: fix transport hang after 4xx/5xx response. Previously
451 the call into OpenSSL to send a TLS Close was being repeated; this
452 resulted in the library waiting for the peer's Close. If that was never
453 sent we waited forever. Fix by tracking send calls.
455 JH/24 The ${run} expansion item now expands its command string elements after
456 splitting. Previously it was before; the new ordering makes handling
457 zero-length arguments simpler. The old ordering can be obtained by
458 appending a new option "preexpand", after a comma, to the "run".
460 JH/25 Taint-check exec arguments for transport-initiated external processes.
461 Previously, tainted values could be used. This affects "pipe", "lmtp" and
462 "queryprogram" transport, transport-filter, and ETRN commands.
463 The ${run} expansion is also affected: in "preexpand" mode no part of
464 the command line may be tainted, in default mode the executable name
467 JH/26 Fix CHUNKING on a continued-transport. Previously the usabliility of
468 the the facility was not passed across execs, and only the first message
469 passed over a connection could use BDAT; any further ones using DATA.
471 JH/27 Support the PIPECONNECT facility in the smtp transport when the helo_data
472 uses $sending_ip_address and an interface is specified.
473 Previously any use of the local address in the EHLO name disabled
474 PIPECONNECT, the common case being to use the rDNS of it.
476 JH/28 OpenSSL: fix transport-required OCSP stapling verification under session
477 resumption. Previously verify failed because no certificate status is
478 passed on the wire for the restarted session. Fix by using the recorded
479 ocsp status of the stored session for the new connection.
481 JH/29 TLS resumption: the key for session lookup in the client now includes
482 more info that a server could potentially use in configuring a TLS
483 session, avoiding oferring mismatching sessions to such a server.
484 Previously only the server IP was used.
486 JH/30 Fix string_copyn() for limit greater than actual string length.
487 Previously the copied amount was the limit, which could result in a
488 overlapping memcpy for newly allocated destination soon after a
489 source string shorter than the limit. Found/investigated by KM.
491 JH/31 Bug 2886: GnuTLS: Do not free the cached creds on transport connection
492 close; it may be needed for a subsequent connection. This caused a
493 SEGV on primary-MX defer. Found/investigated by Gedalya & Andreas.
495 JH/32 Fix CHUNKING for a second message on a connection when the first was
496 rejected. Previously we did not reset the chunking-offered state, and
497 erroneously rejected the BDAT command. Investigation help from
500 JH/33 Fis ${srs_encode ...} to handle an empty sender address, now returning
501 an empty address. Previously the expansion returned an error.
503 HS/01 Bug 2855: Handle a v4mapped sender address given us by a frontending
504 proxy. Previously these were misparsed, leading to paniclog entries.
510 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
511 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
512 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
514 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
515 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
516 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
517 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
519 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
520 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
521 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
522 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
523 so could be handling tainted values.
525 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
526 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
527 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
529 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
530 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
531 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
534 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
535 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
536 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
537 to align better with RFC 6125.
539 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
540 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
541 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
542 by adding a release action in that path.
544 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
545 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
546 dynamically-created buffers.
548 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
549 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
550 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
551 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
553 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
554 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
555 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
556 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
558 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
559 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
560 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
562 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
563 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
564 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
565 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
567 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
568 excluded, not matching the documentation.
570 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
571 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
573 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
574 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
575 this was a coding error.
577 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
578 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
579 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
580 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
581 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
582 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
583 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
585 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
586 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
587 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
588 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
590 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
591 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
592 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
593 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
594 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
596 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
597 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
600 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
601 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
602 domain-parking registrar.
604 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
605 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
606 after removing the newline.
608 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
609 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
610 option set, which was previously used.
612 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
615 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
616 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
617 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
618 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
620 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
621 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
622 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
623 exim.dev.20160529.3).
625 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
626 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
627 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
629 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
630 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
631 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
634 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
635 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
636 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
638 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
639 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
640 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
641 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
644 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
645 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
646 there, handle PRX and TFO.
648 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
649 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
650 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
651 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
652 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
654 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
655 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
656 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
657 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
660 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
661 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
663 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
666 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
667 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
668 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
669 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
670 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
672 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
674 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
675 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
676 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
677 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
678 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
679 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
681 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
682 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
684 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
685 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
686 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
688 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
689 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
692 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
693 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
694 of a new variable: $auth4.
696 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
697 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
698 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
699 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
700 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
702 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
703 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
704 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
705 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
707 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
708 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
709 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
711 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
712 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
713 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
714 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
717 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
718 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the store could not be freed.
719 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
722 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
723 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
724 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
725 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
727 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
728 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
730 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
731 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
732 looked as if if might be one.
734 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
735 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
736 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
737 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
738 messages can show the proxy information.
740 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
741 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
742 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
743 "queue_time_exclusive".
745 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
746 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
747 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
749 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
750 making it unusable in complex expressions.
752 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
753 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
756 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
758 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
760 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
762 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
763 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
764 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
765 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
767 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
768 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
770 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
771 better. Reported by Qualys.
773 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
774 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
777 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
779 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
782 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
784 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
785 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
786 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
787 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
789 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
790 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
792 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
793 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
794 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
795 mode until after various protocol state checks.
796 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
798 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
800 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
801 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
803 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
806 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
807 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
808 executed child processes (if any).
810 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
813 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
814 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
815 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
816 been reported on other platforms.
818 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
820 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
821 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
822 Not supported on Solaris 10.
824 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
825 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
826 since fakereject was originally introduced.
828 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
829 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
831 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
832 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
833 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
836 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
837 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
838 which only permit IP addresses.
844 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
845 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
846 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
848 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
850 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
851 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
854 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
855 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
856 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
858 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
860 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
862 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
863 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
864 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
866 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
867 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
868 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
870 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
871 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
873 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
874 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
877 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
878 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
879 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
880 should both provide the file and set the option.
881 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
883 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
884 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
886 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
887 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
888 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
889 Authentication-Results: header.
891 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
892 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
893 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
894 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
896 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
897 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
898 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
899 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
900 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
901 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
902 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
904 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
905 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
906 copies while it is still usable.
908 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
909 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
910 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
912 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
913 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
915 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
916 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
917 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
918 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
920 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
921 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
922 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
925 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
926 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
927 - the pipe transport command
928 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
929 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
931 - paths used by single-key lookups
932 Previously this was permitted.
934 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
935 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
936 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
937 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
939 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
940 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
941 support larger malloc requests.
943 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
944 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
945 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
946 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
948 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
949 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
950 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
951 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
954 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
955 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
956 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
957 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
958 data being length-specified.
960 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
961 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
962 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
963 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
965 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
966 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
967 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
968 not being properly tracked.
970 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
971 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
972 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
973 minute could be seen.
975 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
976 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
977 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
979 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
980 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
982 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
983 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
986 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
988 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
989 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
991 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
992 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
993 filesystem as sufficient validation.
995 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
996 argument is supplied.
998 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
999 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
1000 access under Exim's current working directory.
1002 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
1003 Previously no event was raised.
1005 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
1006 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
1007 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
1010 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
1011 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
1012 the size of the signature hash.
1014 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
1015 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
1017 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
1018 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
1019 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
1020 dropped between messages.
1022 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
1023 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
1024 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
1025 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
1027 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
1028 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
1029 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
1030 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
1031 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
1032 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
1033 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
1034 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
1035 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
1037 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
1038 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
1039 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
1041 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
1042 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
1049 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
1050 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
1052 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
1053 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
1054 its own TCP segment.
1056 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
1059 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
1061 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
1063 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
1064 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
1066 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
1067 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
1068 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
1069 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
1070 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
1071 suitably configured).
1073 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
1074 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
1076 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
1077 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
1080 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
1081 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
1083 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
1084 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
1085 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
1086 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
1089 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
1090 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
1091 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
1093 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
1096 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
1097 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
1099 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
1100 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
1101 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
1102 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
1105 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
1106 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
1107 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
1108 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
1109 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
1111 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
1112 shared (NFS) environment.
1114 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
1115 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
1118 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
1119 on some platforms for bit 31.
1121 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
1122 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
1123 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
1124 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
1125 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
1126 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
1127 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
1128 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
1130 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
1132 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
1133 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
1135 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
1136 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
1139 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
1140 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
1143 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
1144 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
1145 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
1148 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
1149 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
1150 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
1152 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
1153 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
1154 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
1155 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
1156 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
1158 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
1161 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
1162 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
1163 be requested on all coneections.
1165 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
1166 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
1168 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
1170 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
1171 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
1172 one for these; the option was ignored.
1174 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
1175 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
1176 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
1177 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
1179 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
1180 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
1181 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
1184 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
1185 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
1186 error ignored was made.
1188 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
1190 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
1191 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
1192 values, to catch one form of exploit.
1194 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
1195 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
1196 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
1198 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
1199 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
1202 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
1203 them in our smtp response.
1205 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
1206 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
1207 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
1208 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
1209 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
1211 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
1212 link count into consideration.
1214 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
1215 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
1217 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
1218 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
1219 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
1222 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
1224 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
1226 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
1228 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
1229 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
1230 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
1231 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
1233 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
1235 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
1236 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
1239 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
1240 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
1241 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
1243 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
1244 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
1245 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
1247 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
1248 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
1249 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
1250 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
1251 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
1252 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
1253 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
1254 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
1256 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
1257 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
1258 resulted in an indefinite loop.
1260 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
1261 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
1262 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
1264 JH/48 Bug 2784: fix shutdown=no in the ${readsocket) expansion item. Previously
1265 an incorrect mode was used for reading the result, resulting in it being
1272 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
1273 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
1275 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
1276 non-signal-safe functions being used.
1278 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
1279 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
1280 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
1282 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
1283 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
1284 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
1286 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
1287 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
1288 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
1289 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
1290 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
1293 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
1294 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
1296 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
1297 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
1298 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
1299 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
1300 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
1301 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
1302 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
1304 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
1305 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
1307 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
1310 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
1311 Previously this would segfault.
1313 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
1316 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
1317 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
1318 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
1319 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
1320 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
1321 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
1323 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
1325 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
1326 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
1327 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
1328 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
1330 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
1332 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
1333 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
1334 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
1335 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
1337 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
1339 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
1341 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
1342 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
1343 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
1345 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
1346 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
1347 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
1349 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
1351 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
1352 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
1353 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
1354 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
1356 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
1357 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
1358 promised '?' replacement.
1360 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
1362 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
1363 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
1364 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
1365 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
1366 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
1368 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
1369 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
1370 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
1372 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
1373 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
1374 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
1376 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
1377 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
1378 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
1380 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
1381 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
1382 hope that is portable enough.
1384 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
1385 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
1386 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
1387 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
1389 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
1390 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
1391 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
1393 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
1394 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
1395 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
1396 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
1398 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
1399 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
1401 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
1402 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
1403 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
1404 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
1406 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
1407 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
1408 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
1410 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
1411 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
1412 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
1413 the previous G, M, k.
1415 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
1416 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
1419 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
1420 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
1421 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
1422 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
1424 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
1425 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
1427 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
1428 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
1429 off past the nul-terimation.
1431 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
1432 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
1433 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
1434 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
1435 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
1437 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
1439 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
1440 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
1441 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
1444 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
1445 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
1447 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
1448 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
1449 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
1451 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
1452 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
1453 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
1455 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
1456 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1462 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1463 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1464 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1465 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1466 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1467 be defined in redis_servers.
1469 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1470 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1472 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1473 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1474 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1475 extant use locations.
1477 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1478 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1480 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1481 Previously only the last row was returned.
1483 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1484 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1485 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1486 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1489 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1490 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1491 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1492 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1493 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1494 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1495 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1496 Main pool for expansions.
1497 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1498 active in the testsuite.
1499 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1501 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1502 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1503 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1504 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1507 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1508 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1511 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1512 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1513 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1515 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1516 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1517 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1519 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1520 rows affected is given instead).
1522 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1523 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1525 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1526 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1527 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1528 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1529 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1531 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1532 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1533 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1535 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1536 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1537 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1538 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1541 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1542 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1543 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1546 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1548 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1549 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1551 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1552 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1553 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1555 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1556 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1557 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1560 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1561 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1563 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1564 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1565 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1567 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1568 for the build is renamed.
1570 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1571 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1572 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1574 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1575 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1576 result replacing the original.
1578 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1579 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1580 and the resources needed to be freed.
1582 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1584 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1587 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1588 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1589 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1590 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1592 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1593 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1595 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1596 newer versions of the scanner.
1598 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1599 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1600 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1601 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1602 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1603 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1604 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1606 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1607 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1608 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1609 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1610 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1611 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1612 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1613 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1614 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1615 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1617 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1618 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1620 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1622 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1623 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1625 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1626 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1628 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1629 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1630 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1632 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1633 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1634 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1635 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1637 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1638 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1641 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1642 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1644 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1645 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1646 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1647 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1648 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1650 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1651 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1654 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1655 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1657 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1660 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1661 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1662 "bare" representation.
1664 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1665 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1666 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1667 corrupted the output.
1673 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1674 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1675 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1676 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1678 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1679 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1681 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1682 This permits better logging.
1684 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1685 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1686 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1687 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1688 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1689 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1691 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1692 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1695 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1696 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1697 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1699 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1700 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1702 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1703 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1704 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1705 client, there is no benefit for these.
1706 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1707 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1708 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1711 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1712 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1714 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1715 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1716 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1718 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1719 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1721 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1722 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1723 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1724 signature and again for transmission.
1726 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1727 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1728 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1730 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1731 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1732 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1733 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1734 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1735 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1736 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1738 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1739 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1740 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1741 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1743 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1744 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1745 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1746 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1747 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1748 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1751 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1752 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1753 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1754 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1757 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1758 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1759 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1760 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1763 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1764 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1767 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1768 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1769 banner-time rejection.
1771 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1774 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1775 is the name of a transport.
1778 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1780 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1781 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1783 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1784 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1785 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1788 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1789 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1790 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1791 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1793 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1794 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1795 initial verify call returned a defer.
1797 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1798 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1800 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1801 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1803 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1804 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1806 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1807 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1809 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1810 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1813 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1814 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1816 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1817 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1818 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1820 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1821 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1822 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1823 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1825 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1826 and confused the parent.
1828 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1829 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1831 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1834 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1835 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1836 out-of-order delivery.
1838 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1839 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1840 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1843 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1844 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1847 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1848 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1849 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1851 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1852 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1853 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1854 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1855 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1856 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1858 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1859 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1860 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1862 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1863 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1864 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1866 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1867 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1868 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1869 though a different problem.
1875 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1876 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1878 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1880 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1881 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1883 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1884 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1886 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1887 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1888 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1889 before acknowledging the chunk.
1891 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1892 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1893 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1895 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1896 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1897 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1900 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1901 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1902 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1904 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1905 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1907 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1908 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1909 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1910 body hash calculated value.
1912 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1913 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1914 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1916 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1918 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1919 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1921 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1922 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1923 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1925 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1926 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1927 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1928 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1929 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1930 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1932 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1933 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1934 past that check, despite the cost.
1936 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1937 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1938 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1940 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1941 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1942 TLS library to consume.
1944 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1946 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1948 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1949 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1950 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1951 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1952 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1953 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1954 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1956 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1958 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1960 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1961 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1962 should be warning-free.
1964 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1966 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1967 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1969 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1970 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1971 general solution here.
1973 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1974 already-broken messages in the queue.
1976 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1978 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1984 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1985 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1987 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1988 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1989 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1991 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1992 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1993 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1994 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1995 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1996 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1997 if one fails this test.
1998 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1999 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
2001 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
2002 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
2004 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
2005 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
2007 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
2008 in rewrites and routers.
2010 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
2011 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
2013 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
2014 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
2016 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
2018 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
2021 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
2022 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
2023 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
2024 connection after a verify cache hit.
2025 Do not update it with the verify result either.
2027 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
2028 when routing results in more than one destination address.
2030 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
2031 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
2032 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
2033 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
2034 when the cutthrough connection is made).
2036 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
2037 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
2039 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
2040 Previously they were not counted.
2042 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
2043 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
2044 that needed the lookup.
2046 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
2047 distinguished as "(=".
2049 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
2050 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
2052 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
2054 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
2055 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
2057 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
2058 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
2060 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
2061 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
2064 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
2065 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
2066 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
2067 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
2069 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
2071 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2072 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
2073 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
2075 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
2076 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
2077 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
2080 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
2081 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
2082 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
2085 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
2086 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
2087 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
2089 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
2090 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
2093 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
2095 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
2096 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
2098 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
2099 are not in the system include path.
2101 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
2102 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
2103 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
2104 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
2106 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
2107 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
2108 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
2110 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
2112 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
2113 an incoming connection.
2115 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
2118 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
2119 fallback to "prime256v1".
2121 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
2122 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
2128 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
2129 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
2130 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
2131 client dropping the TLS connection.
2133 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
2134 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
2136 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
2137 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
2138 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
2139 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
2142 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
2143 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
2144 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
2145 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
2146 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
2147 check on the next write.
2149 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
2150 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
2151 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
2152 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
2153 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
2155 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
2156 mime_regex ACL conditions.
2158 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
2159 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
2160 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
2162 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
2163 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
2164 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
2165 an authenticate fail is not an error.
2167 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
2168 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
2170 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
2171 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
2173 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
2174 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
2175 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
2178 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
2180 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
2182 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
2184 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
2185 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
2187 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
2188 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
2190 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
2192 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
2193 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
2195 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
2197 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
2198 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
2200 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
2202 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
2203 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
2204 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
2205 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
2206 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
2207 they will retry in-clear.
2208 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
2209 at installation time.
2211 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
2212 with the $config_file variable.
2214 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
2215 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
2216 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
2217 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
2218 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
2220 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
2221 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
2222 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
2223 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
2224 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
2226 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
2228 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
2229 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
2230 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
2231 list order is no longer honoured.
2233 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
2234 for DKIM processing.
2236 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2237 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
2239 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2240 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
2241 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
2242 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
2244 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
2245 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
2247 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
2248 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
2250 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
2251 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
2253 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
2255 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
2256 cached by the daemon.
2258 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2259 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
2261 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
2262 keys are given for lookup.
2264 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
2265 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
2266 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
2267 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
2269 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
2270 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
2271 server-side so match that on older versions.
2273 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
2274 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
2275 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
2277 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
2278 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
2280 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
2281 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
2282 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
2283 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
2284 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
2285 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
2286 initial truncated version.
2288 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
2290 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
2292 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
2293 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
2295 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
2297 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
2299 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
2300 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
2303 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
2304 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
2307 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
2308 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
2310 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
2311 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
2314 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
2315 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
2316 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
2318 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
2319 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
2320 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
2321 extraction. Accept either.
2327 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
2330 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
2332 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
2335 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
2336 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
2337 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
2338 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
2340 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
2341 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
2342 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
2344 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
2345 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
2346 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
2349 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
2352 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
2353 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
2354 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
2355 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
2356 have a dsn_lasthop option.
2358 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
2359 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
2360 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
2362 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
2364 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
2365 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
2367 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
2368 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
2370 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
2373 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
2374 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
2376 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
2377 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
2378 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
2380 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2381 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
2382 specify a port-range.
2384 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
2385 timeout value per server.
2387 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
2388 now have the list separator specified.
2390 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
2393 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
2396 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
2398 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
2399 rather than the verbs used.
2401 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
2402 from 255 to 1024 chars.
2404 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
2406 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
2407 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
2409 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
2410 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
2412 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
2413 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
2415 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
2417 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
2419 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
2420 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
2421 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
2422 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
2424 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
2426 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
2427 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
2429 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
2430 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
2432 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
2434 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
2436 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
2438 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
2439 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
2441 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
2442 added for tls authenticator.
2444 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
2450 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
2451 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
2452 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
2453 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
2454 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
2455 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
2456 the script parsing/test process like normal.
2458 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2459 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2460 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2461 function when detected.
2463 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2464 cause callback expansion.
2466 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2467 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2468 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2469 instead of bool when processing it.
2471 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2472 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2474 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2476 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2478 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2480 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2481 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2483 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2484 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2485 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2486 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2487 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2488 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2490 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2491 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2494 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2495 version 3.3.6 or later.
2497 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2498 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2499 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2500 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2501 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2502 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2505 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2506 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2508 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2509 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2510 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2513 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2514 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2515 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2517 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2518 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2520 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2521 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2524 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2526 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2527 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2529 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2530 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2533 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2535 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2538 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2539 output list separator was used.
2544 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2545 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2548 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2549 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2551 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2553 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2554 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2560 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2562 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2563 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2564 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2565 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2566 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2567 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2569 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2570 utilities have not been installed.
2572 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2573 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2575 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2576 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2578 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2579 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2580 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2581 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2583 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2585 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2586 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2588 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2591 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2593 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2594 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2595 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2597 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2598 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2599 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2600 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2601 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2602 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2604 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2606 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2607 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2609 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2612 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2614 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2616 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2617 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2619 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2620 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2622 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2624 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2626 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2627 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2629 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2630 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2631 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2633 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2634 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2635 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2638 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2640 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2641 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2644 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2645 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2648 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2649 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2651 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2652 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2654 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2656 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2657 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2658 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2660 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2661 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2663 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2664 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2667 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2668 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2669 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2671 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2673 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2674 Christian Aistleitner.
2676 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2678 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2679 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2681 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2682 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2684 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2685 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2687 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2688 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2690 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2691 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2693 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2694 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2695 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2697 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2699 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2700 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2703 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2705 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2706 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2713 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2715 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2716 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2718 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2721 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2722 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2725 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2727 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2728 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2729 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2730 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2731 using channel bindings instead).
2733 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2734 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2735 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2736 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2737 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2740 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2742 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2744 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2745 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2747 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2748 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2749 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2751 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2753 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2755 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2756 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2758 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2760 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2762 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2764 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2765 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2767 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2769 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2770 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2773 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2774 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2776 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2777 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2780 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2782 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2784 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2785 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2787 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2790 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2791 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2793 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2794 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2796 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2798 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2800 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2803 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2806 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2808 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2809 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2810 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2811 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2813 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2815 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2816 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2817 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2818 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2821 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2822 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2823 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2825 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2826 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2827 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2828 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2830 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2831 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2832 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2833 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2834 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2835 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2836 delivery, as in LMTP.
2838 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2839 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2841 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2843 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2847 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2848 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2849 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2850 username as equal to the username.
2852 This change corrects that bug.
2854 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2855 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2856 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2858 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2860 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2861 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2862 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2863 NULL dereference and crash.
2865 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2867 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2868 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2869 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2871 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2873 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2874 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2875 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2876 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2877 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2878 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2879 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2880 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2881 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2882 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2883 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2885 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2886 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2888 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2889 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2892 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2893 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2894 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2895 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2896 an empty string is now equivalent.
2898 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2899 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2900 not performing validation itself.
2902 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2903 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2905 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2908 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2910 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2911 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2912 other false fix of the same issue.
2913 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2916 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2917 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2919 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2920 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2921 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2923 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2924 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2925 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2927 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2929 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2931 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2932 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2934 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2937 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2938 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2939 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2940 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2941 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2943 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2944 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2946 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2947 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2950 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2951 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2952 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2953 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2955 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2957 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2958 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2959 from multiple comments on this bug.
2961 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2963 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2964 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2967 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2968 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2970 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2971 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2977 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2979 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2985 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2986 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2987 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2989 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2991 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2994 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2996 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2998 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
3000 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
3001 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
3003 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
3004 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
3006 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
3007 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
3009 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
3010 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
3011 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
3013 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
3015 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
3016 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
3018 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
3020 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
3022 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
3023 non-compliant senders.
3024 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
3026 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
3027 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
3028 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
3030 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
3031 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
3032 in spool file corruption.
3034 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
3035 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
3036 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
3039 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
3040 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
3041 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3043 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
3044 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
3046 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
3048 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
3050 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
3052 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
3053 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
3054 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
3056 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
3057 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3058 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
3059 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
3061 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
3062 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
3064 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
3065 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
3066 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
3067 resolver implementation change.
3069 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
3070 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
3072 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
3074 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
3076 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
3077 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
3079 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
3080 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
3082 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
3083 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
3085 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
3086 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
3087 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
3088 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
3089 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
3091 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3093 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
3094 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
3095 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
3097 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
3099 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
3100 read-only, out of scope).
3101 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
3103 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
3104 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
3105 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
3106 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
3108 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
3110 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
3111 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
3112 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
3113 real issues in debug logging.
3115 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
3116 assignment on my part. Fixed.
3118 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
3119 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
3120 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
3122 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
3123 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
3124 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
3127 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
3128 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
3130 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
3131 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
3132 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
3133 needs to override this, it can.
3135 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
3136 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
3137 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3139 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
3140 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
3141 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
3142 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
3144 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
3150 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
3151 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
3153 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
3155 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
3158 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
3159 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
3161 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
3162 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
3163 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
3165 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
3166 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
3167 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
3168 not safe for signals.
3170 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
3171 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
3172 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
3173 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
3176 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
3178 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
3179 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
3180 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
3181 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
3182 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
3184 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
3185 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
3186 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
3187 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
3188 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
3189 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
3191 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
3192 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
3193 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
3194 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
3196 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
3197 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
3198 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
3199 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
3201 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
3202 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
3203 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
3204 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
3205 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
3206 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
3207 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
3208 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
3209 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
3211 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
3212 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
3213 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
3214 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
3216 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
3217 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
3218 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
3219 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
3220 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
3221 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
3222 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
3223 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
3224 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
3225 details in the main documentation.
3227 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
3229 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
3231 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
3232 repository when doing development or release builds.
3234 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
3235 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
3237 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
3238 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
3241 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
3243 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
3244 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
3246 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
3247 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3249 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
3250 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3252 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
3253 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
3255 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
3256 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3258 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
3260 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
3263 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
3264 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
3265 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
3267 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
3269 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
3271 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
3272 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
3278 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
3280 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
3281 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
3283 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
3285 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
3287 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
3290 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
3291 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
3293 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
3294 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
3296 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
3297 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
3299 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
3302 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
3303 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
3305 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
3306 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
3307 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
3308 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
3310 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
3311 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
3317 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
3320 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
3321 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
3322 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
3324 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
3325 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
3327 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
3328 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
3329 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
3331 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
3332 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
3334 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
3335 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
3337 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
3338 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
3340 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
3341 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
3343 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
3344 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
3346 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
3349 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
3350 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
3352 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
3353 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
3355 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
3356 SQL string expansion failure details.
3357 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
3359 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
3360 Patch from Simon Arlott.
3362 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
3363 extern declarations in function scope.
3364 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
3366 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
3367 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
3368 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
3371 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
3372 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3374 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
3375 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3377 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
3378 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3380 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
3381 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
3383 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
3384 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
3387 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
3389 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
3391 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
3392 Patch by Simon Arlott
3394 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
3395 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
3401 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
3402 consequences so log it to the panic log.
3404 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
3405 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
3407 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
3409 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
3410 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
3411 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
3413 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
3414 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
3415 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
3417 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
3418 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
3419 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
3420 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
3422 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
3423 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
3424 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
3425 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
3427 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
3428 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
3429 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
3432 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
3435 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
3436 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
3437 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
3438 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
3439 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
3445 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
3446 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
3447 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
3449 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
3450 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
3452 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
3454 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
3456 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
3458 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3460 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3462 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3463 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3464 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3465 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3467 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3468 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3469 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3470 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3471 more caution in buffer sizes.
3473 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3475 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3477 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3479 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3481 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3483 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3485 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3487 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3488 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3489 ignore trailing whitespace.
3491 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3493 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3496 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3497 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3499 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3500 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3501 Notification from John Horne.
3503 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3506 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3507 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3510 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3513 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3514 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3515 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3517 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3518 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3519 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3522 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3523 option (effectively making it always true).
3525 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3526 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3528 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3529 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3531 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3532 run-time user, instead of root.
3534 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3535 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3537 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3538 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3541 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3542 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3543 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3545 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3547 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3553 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3554 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3557 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3558 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3561 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3562 Patch from Alain Williams
3564 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3566 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3567 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3569 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3570 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3572 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3574 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3576 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3577 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3579 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3581 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3583 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3584 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3585 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3587 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3588 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3590 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3591 Patch by Simon Arlott
3593 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3594 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3600 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3602 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3604 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3606 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3608 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3614 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3615 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3617 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3618 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3621 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3622 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3623 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3625 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3626 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3628 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3629 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3630 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3631 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3633 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3634 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3635 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3637 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3639 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3641 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3642 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3644 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3646 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3647 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3648 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3649 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3651 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3652 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3654 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3656 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3658 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3659 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3661 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3662 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3664 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3665 that they are available at delivery time.
3667 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3669 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3670 incoming_port log selectors.
3672 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3673 setting expands to an empty string.
3675 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3676 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3678 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3679 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3681 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3682 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3684 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3685 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3687 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3688 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3690 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3691 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3693 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3695 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3696 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3698 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3699 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3701 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3703 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3704 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3706 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3708 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3710 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3713 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3714 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3716 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3717 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3719 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3720 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3722 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3723 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3725 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3726 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3728 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3729 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3731 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3732 plus update to original patch.
3734 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3736 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3737 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3739 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3741 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3743 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3745 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3747 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3748 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3750 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3751 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3753 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3754 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3756 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3757 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3759 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3761 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3763 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3765 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3771 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3772 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3773 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3775 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3776 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3777 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3778 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3779 build errors in sieve.c.
3781 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3782 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3783 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3785 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3787 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3789 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3791 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3797 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3799 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3800 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3801 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3802 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3803 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3804 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3805 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3806 for iplsearch lookups.
3808 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3809 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3810 previously such lookups could never work.
3812 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3813 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3814 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3816 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3819 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3820 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3821 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3822 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3823 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3824 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3826 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3827 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3829 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3830 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3831 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3832 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3833 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3834 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3836 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3839 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3841 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3842 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3845 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3846 by clients under certain conditions.
3848 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3849 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3851 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3853 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3854 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3856 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3858 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3860 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3862 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3863 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3865 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3867 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3868 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3870 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3872 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3874 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3875 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3876 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3877 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3879 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3880 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3881 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3883 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3884 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3886 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3888 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3890 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3892 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3893 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3894 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3900 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3901 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3904 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3905 issue a MAIL command.
3907 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3909 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3911 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3912 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3913 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3914 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3915 item. This has been fixed.
3917 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3918 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3920 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3921 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3923 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3924 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3925 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3927 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3929 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3930 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3931 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3932 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3933 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3935 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3936 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3937 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3939 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3940 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3941 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3942 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3944 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3946 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3948 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3949 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3950 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3951 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3952 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3954 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3956 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3957 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3958 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3961 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3963 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3965 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3967 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3969 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3971 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3972 no_callout_flush is set.
3974 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3975 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3976 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3979 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3981 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3982 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3983 other ACL rejections are.
3985 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3986 with slight modification.
3988 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3989 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3991 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3992 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3995 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3996 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3998 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
4000 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
4001 expansion side effects.
4003 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
4004 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
4005 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
4008 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
4009 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
4010 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
4012 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
4013 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
4014 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
4015 were accidentally chopped off.
4017 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
4018 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
4019 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
4020 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
4021 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
4022 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
4023 pipelining has not been advertised.
4025 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
4027 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
4028 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
4029 This has been fixed.
4031 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
4032 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
4033 reported on Solaris.
4035 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
4036 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
4037 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
4038 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
4039 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
4040 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
4041 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
4043 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
4046 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
4048 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
4050 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
4051 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
4052 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
4053 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
4054 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
4055 criteria to be more general.
4057 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
4058 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
4059 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
4060 host_all_ignored option.
4062 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
4063 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
4064 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
4065 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
4066 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
4067 is what is supposed to happen).
4069 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
4070 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
4071 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
4072 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
4073 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
4076 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
4077 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
4078 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
4079 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
4080 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
4081 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
4084 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4086 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
4087 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
4089 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
4090 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
4092 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
4094 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4096 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
4097 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
4098 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
4099 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
4100 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
4101 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
4102 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
4103 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
4104 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
4105 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
4106 least in a lot of common cases.
4108 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
4109 advertised in response to EHLO.
4115 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
4116 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
4118 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
4119 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
4121 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
4122 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
4123 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
4125 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
4126 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
4127 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
4128 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
4129 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
4135 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
4136 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
4139 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
4140 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
4141 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
4143 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
4144 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
4145 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
4146 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
4147 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
4148 rather than extend the field.
4154 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
4155 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
4156 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
4157 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
4160 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
4161 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
4162 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
4164 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
4165 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
4166 hence the _LINUX specificness.
4168 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
4169 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
4170 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
4173 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
4174 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
4175 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
4176 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
4177 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
4178 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
4179 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
4180 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
4181 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
4182 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
4183 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
4185 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
4188 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
4189 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
4190 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
4191 ignores EPIPE as well.
4193 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
4194 (quoted-printable decoding).
4196 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
4197 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
4199 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
4201 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
4203 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
4205 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
4206 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
4208 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
4211 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
4212 miscellaneous code fixes
4214 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
4217 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
4218 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
4219 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
4220 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
4221 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
4222 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
4223 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
4224 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
4226 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
4227 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
4228 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
4229 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
4231 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
4232 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
4233 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
4234 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
4235 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
4236 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
4237 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
4238 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
4239 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
4241 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
4244 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
4245 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
4246 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
4247 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
4248 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
4249 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
4250 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
4251 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
4253 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
4254 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
4257 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
4258 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
4259 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
4260 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
4261 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
4262 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
4263 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
4264 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
4265 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
4266 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
4267 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
4268 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
4269 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
4271 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
4272 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
4273 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
4274 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
4275 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
4276 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
4277 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
4279 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
4280 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
4281 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
4282 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
4283 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
4284 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
4285 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
4286 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
4287 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
4288 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
4290 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
4291 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
4292 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
4293 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
4294 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
4296 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
4297 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
4298 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
4299 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
4300 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
4301 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
4302 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
4304 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
4305 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
4306 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
4307 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
4308 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
4309 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
4312 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
4313 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
4314 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
4317 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
4318 if any retry times were supplied.
4320 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
4321 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
4322 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
4324 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
4326 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
4328 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
4329 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
4330 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
4331 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
4332 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
4333 before) are ignored.
4335 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
4336 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
4338 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
4339 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
4340 committing the later change.]
4342 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
4343 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
4344 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
4345 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
4346 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
4347 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
4348 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
4349 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
4350 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
4352 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
4353 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
4354 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
4355 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
4356 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
4357 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
4358 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
4359 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
4360 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
4362 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
4363 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
4364 hammering the server.
4366 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
4367 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
4369 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
4371 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
4372 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
4373 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
4375 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
4376 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
4377 one case where this was not true.
4379 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
4380 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
4381 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
4382 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
4385 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
4386 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
4387 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
4388 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4389 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
4390 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
4391 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
4392 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
4393 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
4396 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
4397 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
4398 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
4399 same for both kinds of LMTP.
4401 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
4402 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
4404 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
4405 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
4406 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
4408 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
4410 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
4412 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
4414 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
4415 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
4416 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
4417 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
4419 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
4420 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
4422 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
4423 be meaningful with "accept".
4425 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
4426 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
4428 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
4429 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
4430 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4432 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
4433 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
4434 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
4435 there is data to show.
4436 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
4438 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
4439 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
4440 as well as the number of messages.
4442 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
4443 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
4444 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
4446 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
4447 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
4448 have a flag are now skipped.
4450 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
4451 Added the -emptyok flag.
4453 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
4454 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
4456 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
4457 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4458 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4460 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4463 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4464 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4466 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4468 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4469 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4471 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4473 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4474 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4475 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4476 contravention of the specifications.
4478 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4479 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4480 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4482 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4483 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4484 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4486 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4488 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4489 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4490 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4491 some point in the past.
4493 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4494 transport during callout processing was broken.
4496 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4497 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4499 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4500 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4502 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4503 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4505 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4511 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4512 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4514 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4515 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4516 there is data to show.
4517 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4519 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4520 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4522 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4523 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4525 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4526 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4528 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4529 submissions from trusted users.
4531 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4532 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4534 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4535 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4536 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4537 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4538 there is now a framework to start from.
4540 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4541 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4542 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4544 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4546 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4548 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4550 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4551 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4552 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4554 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4557 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4558 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4559 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4561 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4562 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4563 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4566 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4567 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4568 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4569 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4570 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4572 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4573 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4575 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4577 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4578 operations in malware.c.
4580 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4583 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4584 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4585 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4588 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4589 statements to "add_header".
4591 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4592 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4594 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4595 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4598 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4602 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4603 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4604 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4607 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4608 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4610 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4611 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4613 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4614 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4615 any possible encoding problems.
4617 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4618 but not after initializing Perl.
4620 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4621 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4622 apparently, which is not desirable.
4624 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4627 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4630 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4632 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4633 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4634 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4635 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4637 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4638 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4639 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4641 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4642 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4643 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4646 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4647 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4648 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4649 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4650 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4656 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4657 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4659 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4662 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4663 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4664 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4665 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4666 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4667 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4668 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4669 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4672 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4674 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4675 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4676 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4678 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4679 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4680 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4683 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4684 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4686 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4687 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4688 option (which defaults to 0600).
4690 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4692 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4693 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4694 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4695 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4696 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4697 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4698 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4700 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4706 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4707 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4708 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4709 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4710 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4711 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4714 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4715 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4717 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4719 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4720 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4721 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4722 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4723 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4726 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4727 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4729 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4730 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4731 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4732 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4733 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4735 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4736 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4737 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4738 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4740 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4741 be the same on different OS.
4743 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4746 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4747 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4749 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4752 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4753 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4754 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4755 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4756 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4757 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4760 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4761 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4762 when Exim was called.
4764 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4765 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4767 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4768 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4769 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4770 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4772 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4773 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4774 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4775 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4778 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4779 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4780 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4782 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4783 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4784 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4786 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4789 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4790 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4791 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4792 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4793 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4794 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4795 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4796 values from the SRV records were lost.
4798 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4799 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4800 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4802 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4803 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4804 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4806 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4807 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4808 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4809 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4810 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4811 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4812 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4813 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4814 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4815 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4817 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4818 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4819 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4821 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4822 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4824 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4825 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4826 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4827 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4830 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4831 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4832 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4834 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4835 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4836 PH/23 above applies.
4838 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4839 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4840 (for which there is an explicit test).
4842 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4844 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4845 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4846 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4847 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4848 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4850 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4851 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4852 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4853 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4855 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4856 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4857 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4859 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4861 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4863 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4864 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4865 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4867 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4868 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4869 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4870 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4871 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4873 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4874 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4875 the message gets confusing).
4877 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4878 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4879 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4880 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4882 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4883 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4884 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4885 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4888 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4889 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4890 the different processes.
4892 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4894 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4896 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4897 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4899 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4900 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4902 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4903 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4904 messages matching specified criteria.
4906 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4908 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4909 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4911 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4912 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4913 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4914 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4915 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4916 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4917 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4918 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4919 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4920 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4922 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4923 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4924 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4926 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4928 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4929 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4930 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4931 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4932 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4933 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4934 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4937 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4938 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4940 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4942 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4944 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4946 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4947 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4948 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4949 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4950 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4951 size of the count of files.
4953 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4955 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4958 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4959 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4960 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4961 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4963 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4964 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4965 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4967 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4968 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4969 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4970 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4971 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4973 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4974 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4976 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4977 will now be deprecated.
4979 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4981 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4982 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4983 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4985 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4986 with very large, slow to parse queues
4988 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4990 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4992 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4993 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4994 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4997 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4998 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4999 Sieve code now uses this.
5001 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
5002 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
5004 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
5005 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
5007 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
5009 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
5010 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
5011 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
5012 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
5013 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
5015 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
5016 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
5017 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
5018 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
5020 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
5022 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
5024 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
5025 is preferred over IPv4.
5027 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
5028 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
5029 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
5030 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
5031 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
5032 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
5033 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
5035 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
5036 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
5037 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
5039 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
5041 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
5042 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
5043 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
5044 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
5045 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
5046 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
5047 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
5048 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
5049 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
5050 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
5051 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
5053 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
5054 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
5055 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
5061 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
5063 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
5064 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
5066 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
5067 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
5068 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5070 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
5072 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
5075 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
5078 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
5079 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
5080 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
5083 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
5084 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
5086 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
5087 inside the third argument.
5089 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
5090 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
5093 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
5094 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
5096 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
5097 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
5099 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
5101 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
5102 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
5105 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
5107 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
5108 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
5109 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
5110 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
5111 identical. For example:
5113 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
5115 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
5116 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
5117 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
5119 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
5120 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
5121 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
5122 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
5124 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
5125 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
5126 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
5129 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
5131 o fixes some comments
5132 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
5133 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
5134 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
5135 and documents the missing references header update
5139 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
5140 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
5143 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
5144 Electronic Mail") by including:
5146 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
5148 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
5149 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
5150 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
5151 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
5152 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
5154 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5156 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
5158 The auto-replied keyword:
5160 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
5161 message by an automatic process,
5163 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
5165 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
5166 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
5168 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
5169 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
5172 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
5173 to the default Received: header definition.
5175 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
5177 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
5178 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
5179 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
5181 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
5182 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
5183 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
5185 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
5186 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
5187 and treats the condition as false.
5189 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
5191 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
5192 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
5193 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
5194 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
5195 not changing the active code.
5197 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
5198 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
5200 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
5201 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
5203 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
5206 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
5207 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
5208 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
5209 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
5210 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
5211 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
5212 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
5213 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
5214 the text comparison.
5216 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
5217 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
5218 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
5219 The same fix has been applied.
5225 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
5226 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
5229 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
5230 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
5232 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
5234 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
5235 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
5236 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
5237 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
5238 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
5240 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
5241 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
5242 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
5243 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
5246 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
5254 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
5255 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
5257 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
5259 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
5261 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
5262 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
5263 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
5265 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
5266 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
5267 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
5269 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
5270 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
5273 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
5274 ${stat: expansion item.
5276 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
5277 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
5279 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
5280 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
5283 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5285 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
5288 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
5289 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
5291 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
5293 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
5294 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
5295 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
5296 the end of the subprocess.
5298 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
5299 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
5300 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
5301 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
5302 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
5304 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
5306 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
5308 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
5309 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
5311 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
5313 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
5315 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
5316 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
5319 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
5321 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
5322 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
5323 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
5325 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
5326 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
5328 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
5329 host errors such as "Connection refused".
5331 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
5332 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
5334 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
5335 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
5337 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
5338 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
5339 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
5340 contributed by a Radius user.
5342 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
5343 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
5345 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
5346 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
5348 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
5351 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
5352 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
5355 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
5356 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
5357 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
5358 header lines when this was not necessary.
5360 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
5362 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
5363 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
5364 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
5367 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
5370 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
5371 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
5372 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
5373 return code was incorrect.
5375 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
5377 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
5379 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
5381 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
5383 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
5384 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
5385 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
5386 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
5387 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
5390 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
5392 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
5393 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
5394 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
5395 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
5396 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
5397 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
5398 which is clearly wrong.
5400 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
5402 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
5403 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
5404 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
5407 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
5408 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
5410 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
5412 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
5413 the "build-* directories that it finds.
5415 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
5416 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
5418 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
5419 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
5421 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
5422 recipients, not senders.
5424 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
5425 the ratelimit ACL was added.
5427 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
5429 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
5431 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
5432 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
5433 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
5434 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
5436 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
5438 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
5439 clock is set back in time.
5441 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
5442 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
5444 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
5445 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
5447 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
5448 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
5451 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
5452 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
5455 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
5458 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5460 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5461 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5462 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5464 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5465 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5466 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5467 helo verification defer as a failure.
5469 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5470 actual error message.
5476 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5478 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5479 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5480 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5481 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5483 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5485 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5486 can still be requested.
5488 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5489 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5490 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5491 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5493 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5494 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5495 circumstances, but probably never did.
5497 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5498 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5499 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5502 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5504 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5505 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5507 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5509 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5511 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5512 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5513 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5514 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5515 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5516 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5518 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5519 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5520 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5521 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5522 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5523 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5525 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5526 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5528 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5529 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5531 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5532 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5534 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5536 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5538 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5540 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5542 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5544 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5546 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5548 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5549 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5550 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5552 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5553 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5554 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5555 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5557 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5558 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5559 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5561 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5562 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5563 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5564 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5566 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5567 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5570 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5571 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5572 should work with maildirs and everything.
5574 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5575 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5577 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5580 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5581 function for BDB 4.3.
5583 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5585 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5586 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5589 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5590 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5591 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5592 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5593 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5594 formatting function string_vformat().
5596 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5597 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5598 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5599 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5600 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5601 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5602 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5603 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5605 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5606 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5609 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5610 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5612 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5613 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5614 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5615 test. It is now used for both.
5617 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5618 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5619 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5620 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5621 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5622 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5624 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5625 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5626 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5629 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5630 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5631 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5633 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5634 experimental DomainKeys support:
5636 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5637 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5638 the control was given.
5640 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5642 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5644 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5646 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5647 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5648 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5651 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5652 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5653 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5654 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5655 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5656 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5659 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5660 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5661 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5662 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5663 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5664 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5666 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5667 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5668 do -d+all out of habit.
5670 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5671 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5674 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5675 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5676 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5677 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5678 record types that Exim uses.
5680 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5681 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5682 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5683 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5684 non-existent file that was broken.
5686 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5687 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5689 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5690 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5691 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5693 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5695 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5696 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5697 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5698 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5699 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5702 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5703 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5704 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5705 at a slight CPU cost.
5707 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5708 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5710 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5713 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5715 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5716 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5722 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5723 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5725 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5727 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5729 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5730 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5732 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5733 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5734 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5735 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5736 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5737 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5740 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5741 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5742 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5743 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5746 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5747 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5748 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5749 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5750 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5751 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5752 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5755 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5756 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5758 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5759 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5760 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5761 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5762 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5763 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5765 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5766 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5767 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5768 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5770 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5773 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5774 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5776 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5777 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5778 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5779 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5782 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5784 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5785 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5787 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5788 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5789 to what was transported.)
5791 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5793 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5794 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5795 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5796 spamd_address settings.
5798 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5799 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5800 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5801 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5802 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5804 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5806 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5807 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5808 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5809 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5810 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5812 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5813 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5815 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5816 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5817 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5818 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5819 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5820 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5821 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5824 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5825 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5826 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5827 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5828 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5829 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5830 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5833 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5835 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5836 driver and ACL definitions.
5838 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5839 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5841 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5842 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5843 understands it better than I do:
5845 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5846 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5848 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5849 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5850 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5851 => three warnings about OTP not working
5852 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5854 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5855 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5856 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5857 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5859 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5860 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5862 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5863 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5864 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5866 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5867 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5870 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5871 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5874 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5875 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5876 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5878 warn !verify = sender
5879 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5881 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5882 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5884 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5886 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5887 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5889 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5890 nomenclature these days.)
5892 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5893 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5895 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5896 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5897 . First host does not offer TLS;
5898 . First host accepts first address;
5899 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5900 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5901 . Second host accepts second address.
5902 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5903 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5906 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5907 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5908 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5909 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5910 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5912 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5913 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5915 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5916 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5918 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5919 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5920 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5922 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5923 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5926 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5928 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5929 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5930 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5931 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5932 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5933 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5934 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5936 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5937 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5938 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5939 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5940 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5942 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5943 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5946 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5947 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5948 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5949 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5950 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5951 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5953 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5955 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5956 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5957 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5958 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5959 printable escape sequences.
5961 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5962 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5965 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5966 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5969 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5970 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5971 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5972 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5973 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5975 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5976 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5977 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5979 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5981 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5982 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5985 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5986 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5987 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5988 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5989 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5990 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5991 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5992 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5993 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5996 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5997 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5998 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5999 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
6003 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
6004 ----------------------------------------
6006 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
6007 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
6008 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
6009 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
6010 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
6011 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
6014 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
6015 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
6016 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
6017 historical information.
6023 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6025 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
6026 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
6028 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6029 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6032 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6033 filter fails to execute.
6035 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6036 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6037 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6038 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6039 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6041 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
6043 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6044 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6045 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6046 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6048 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6049 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6050 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6051 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6052 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6054 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
6056 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6058 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6059 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6060 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6061 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6063 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6064 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6065 sender verification.
6067 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
6068 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
6070 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
6072 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
6075 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6076 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6078 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6079 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6081 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
6082 information about exactly what failed.
6084 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
6086 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
6087 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
6088 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
6090 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
6091 It is now set to "smtps".
6093 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6094 ignore_target_hosts.
6096 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6097 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6098 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6099 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6102 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6103 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6104 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6106 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6107 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6108 wake it up if nothing else does.
6110 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6111 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6112 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6115 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6116 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6118 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
6120 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
6121 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
6122 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
6123 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
6124 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
6125 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
6126 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
6127 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
6129 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
6130 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
6131 than one IP address.
6133 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
6134 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
6135 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
6136 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
6138 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6139 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6140 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6141 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6142 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6145 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
6146 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
6147 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
6148 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
6150 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6151 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6154 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6155 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6156 $sender_host_address.
6158 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
6159 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
6160 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
6161 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
6162 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
6165 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
6167 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
6168 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
6170 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
6171 just the host names, not the priorities.
6173 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
6174 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
6175 controlled by a keyword.
6177 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
6178 multiple records are returned.
6180 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
6181 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
6184 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
6186 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
6187 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
6189 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6190 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6191 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6193 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
6195 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
6197 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
6199 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6200 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6201 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6202 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6203 because the tests only now provoked it.
6205 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6206 (this can affect the format of dates).
6208 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6209 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6210 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6211 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6213 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
6215 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6216 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6217 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6218 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6220 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6221 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6222 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6224 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6227 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6228 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6229 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6230 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6231 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6232 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6235 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
6236 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
6237 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
6240 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
6241 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
6242 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
6244 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
6245 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
6246 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
6247 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
6248 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
6249 so I produce this patch..."
6251 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
6252 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
6255 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6256 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6257 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6258 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6261 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
6263 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
6264 long debug lines gets shown.
6266 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
6267 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
6269 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
6271 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
6272 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
6273 of $primary_hostname.
6275 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6276 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6277 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6278 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6279 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6280 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6281 by change 4.50/55 above.
6283 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6284 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6285 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6286 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6287 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6288 running as the user.
6291 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6292 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6293 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6296 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
6297 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
6299 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6300 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6301 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6302 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6303 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6305 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
6306 This has been fixed.
6308 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6309 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6310 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6311 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6314 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
6316 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
6317 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
6318 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
6319 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
6321 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
6322 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
6324 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
6325 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
6326 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
6328 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
6329 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
6330 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
6333 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
6334 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
6335 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
6337 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
6338 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
6339 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
6340 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
6342 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
6343 during host lookups.
6345 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
6346 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
6348 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
6350 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
6351 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
6352 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
6353 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
6354 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
6357 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
6358 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
6360 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
6361 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
6362 for the non-SMTP ACL.
6364 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
6366 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
6367 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
6368 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
6369 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
6370 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
6371 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
6374 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
6375 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
6376 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
6377 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
6378 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
6380 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
6383 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
6385 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
6386 "vacation" handling.
6388 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
6389 OS variants using glibc.
6391 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
6394 ----------------------------------------------------
6395 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
6396 ----------------------------------------------------
6402 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
6403 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
6406 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6407 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6410 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6411 filter fails to execute.
6413 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6414 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6415 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6416 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6417 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6419 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6420 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6421 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6422 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6424 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6425 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6426 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6427 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6428 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6430 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6432 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6433 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6434 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6435 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6437 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6438 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6439 sender verification.
6441 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6442 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6444 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6445 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6447 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6448 ignore_target_hosts.
6450 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6451 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6452 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6453 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6456 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6457 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6458 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6460 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6461 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6462 wake it up if nothing else does.
6464 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6465 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6466 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6469 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6470 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6472 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6474 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6475 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6478 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6479 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6482 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6483 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6484 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6485 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6486 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6489 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6490 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6493 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6494 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6495 $sender_host_address.
6497 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6499 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6500 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6501 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6503 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6506 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6507 (this can affect the format of dates).
6509 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6510 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6511 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6512 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6514 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6515 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6516 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6518 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6519 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6520 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6521 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6523 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6524 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6525 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6527 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6530 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6531 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6532 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6533 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6534 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6535 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6538 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6539 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6540 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6541 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6544 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6545 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6546 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6547 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6548 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6549 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6550 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6552 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6553 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6554 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6555 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6556 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6557 running as the user.
6560 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6561 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6562 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6565 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6566 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6567 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6568 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6569 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6571 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6572 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6573 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6574 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6577 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6578 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6579 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6580 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6581 because the tests only now provoked it.
6587 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6588 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6589 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6590 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6591 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6592 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6593 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6595 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6596 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6599 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6601 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6603 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6604 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6607 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6608 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6609 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6610 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6611 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6613 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6614 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6616 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6618 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6620 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6623 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6624 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6626 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6627 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6628 affecting debugging statements).
6630 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6632 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6633 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6634 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6635 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6636 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6637 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6638 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6639 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6640 after the received time, and all would be well.
6642 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6643 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6644 condition in an expansion string.
6646 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6648 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6649 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6650 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6651 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6652 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6653 job under whatever limits there are.
6655 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6657 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6660 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6661 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6662 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6663 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6666 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6667 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6668 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6669 binary data in such strings.
6671 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6673 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6674 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6675 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6676 failure, which is pointless.
6678 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6680 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6682 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6683 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6684 Sender: header lines.
6686 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6687 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6688 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6690 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6691 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6692 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6693 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6694 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6697 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6698 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6699 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6700 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6701 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6703 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6704 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6705 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6708 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6709 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6711 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6712 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6714 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6716 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6718 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6720 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6723 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6725 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6727 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6728 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6729 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6730 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6732 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6733 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6739 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6740 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6741 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6743 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6744 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6745 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6746 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6747 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6748 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6750 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6751 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6752 verification failure".
6754 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6755 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6756 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6757 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6759 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6760 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6761 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6762 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6763 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6764 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6765 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6766 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6767 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6768 treated as a timeout.
6770 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6771 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6772 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6773 not set for Exim filters).
6775 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6776 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6777 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6779 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6781 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6782 try to make them clearer.
6784 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6785 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6787 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6789 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6791 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6792 only the Cygwin environment.
6794 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6795 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6796 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6797 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6798 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6800 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6801 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6802 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6803 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6804 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6805 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6806 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6808 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6809 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6811 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6813 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6814 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6815 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6817 To: susanne@some.where
6819 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6820 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6821 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6822 of addresses in From: header lines).
6824 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6825 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6826 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6828 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6829 treated as non-personal.
6831 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6832 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6834 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6836 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6838 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6839 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6840 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6842 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6843 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6845 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6846 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6847 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6848 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6849 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6850 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6852 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6853 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6854 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6855 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6856 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6857 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6858 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6859 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6861 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6863 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6864 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6866 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6867 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6868 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6870 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6871 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6873 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6874 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6875 rather than long int.
6877 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6879 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6885 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6886 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6887 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6888 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6889 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6890 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6896 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6897 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6899 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6900 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6901 socklen_t is defined.
6903 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6906 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6909 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6910 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6911 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6912 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6913 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6915 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6916 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6917 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6918 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6920 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6921 of flapping under certain conditions.
6923 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6924 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6925 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6927 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6929 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6931 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6932 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6933 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6934 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6936 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6937 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6938 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6939 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6940 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6941 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6942 preserved with the message after it was received.
6944 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6945 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6946 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6947 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6948 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6949 test suite worked just fine.
6951 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6952 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6953 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6955 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6956 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6959 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6960 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6961 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6962 does not fully solve it.
6964 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6965 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6966 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6967 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6968 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6970 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6971 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6972 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6974 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6975 string, for example:
6977 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6979 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6980 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6981 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6982 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6983 the routers could not see them.
6985 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6986 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6988 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6989 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6992 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6993 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6994 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6995 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6996 that needed quoting.
6998 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6999 was not being matched caselessly.
7001 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
7004 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
7005 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
7006 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
7007 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
7008 when use_sender is false.
7010 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
7012 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
7014 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
7016 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
7017 the configuration file.
7019 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
7020 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
7022 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
7024 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
7025 bytes in the message body.
7027 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
7028 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
7031 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
7033 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
7035 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
7036 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
7037 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
7038 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
7045 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
7046 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
7048 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
7049 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
7050 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
7051 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
7052 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
7054 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
7055 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
7057 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
7058 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
7059 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
7061 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
7062 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
7063 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
7065 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
7068 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
7069 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
7070 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
7071 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
7072 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
7073 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
7074 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
7080 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
7081 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
7082 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
7083 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
7084 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
7085 default (and expected) setting.
7087 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
7088 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
7089 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
7090 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
7092 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
7093 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
7095 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
7098 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
7099 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
7100 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
7101 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
7102 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
7103 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
7105 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
7106 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
7107 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
7109 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
7110 part (NOT match_host).
7112 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
7114 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
7115 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
7116 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
7117 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
7118 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
7119 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
7120 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
7121 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
7122 the same named file.
7124 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
7125 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
7128 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
7129 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
7130 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
7131 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
7134 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
7135 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
7136 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
7138 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
7140 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
7142 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
7144 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
7145 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
7147 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
7148 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
7149 before starting the TLS session.
7151 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
7153 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
7154 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
7156 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
7157 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
7158 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
7159 colon in the middle).
7165 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
7166 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
7167 multiple configurations are in use.
7169 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
7170 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
7171 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
7172 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
7173 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
7174 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
7176 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
7177 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
7179 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
7180 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
7181 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
7183 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
7184 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
7187 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
7188 that used bh_ and bheader_.
7190 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
7192 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
7193 allowing one more file than it should have been.
7195 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
7203 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
7204 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
7205 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
7206 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
7207 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
7209 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
7212 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
7213 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
7214 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
7215 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
7216 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
7217 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
7219 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
7220 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
7221 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
7222 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
7223 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
7224 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
7225 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
7228 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
7229 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
7230 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
7231 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
7232 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
7234 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
7236 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
7237 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
7238 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
7240 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
7242 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
7243 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
7244 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
7247 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
7248 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
7250 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
7251 Three changes have been made:
7253 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
7254 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
7255 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
7256 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
7257 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
7259 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
7262 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
7263 the modified behaviour.
7269 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
7272 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
7273 indeed breaks things for older releases.
7275 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
7276 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
7277 try to track down a specific problem.
7279 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
7280 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
7281 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
7283 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
7286 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
7287 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
7288 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
7289 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
7290 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
7291 some earlier ones do not.
7293 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
7295 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
7296 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
7297 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7298 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
7299 address literals are enabled, of course).
7301 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
7303 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
7304 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
7305 by a command such as
7309 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
7311 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
7313 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
7314 remained set. It is now erased.
7316 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
7317 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
7319 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
7320 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
7321 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
7322 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
7323 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
7324 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
7325 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
7326 appropriate error code.
7328 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
7329 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
7330 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
7331 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
7332 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
7333 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
7335 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
7336 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
7337 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
7339 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
7340 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
7341 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
7342 terminate the header.
7344 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
7345 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
7346 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
7348 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
7349 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
7350 (4.30/29). In particular:
7352 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
7355 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
7356 to write a maildirsize file.
7358 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
7359 the transport, the new value overrides.
7361 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
7364 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
7365 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
7366 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
7369 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
7370 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
7371 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
7374 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
7375 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
7376 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
7378 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
7379 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
7382 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
7383 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
7384 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
7386 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
7388 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
7390 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
7392 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
7393 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
7396 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
7397 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
7398 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
7399 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
7400 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
7401 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
7402 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
7405 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
7406 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
7407 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
7408 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
7409 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
7412 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
7413 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
7414 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
7415 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
7416 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
7417 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
7418 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
7419 cached value only when the same options are set.
7421 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
7423 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
7424 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
7425 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
7426 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
7427 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
7429 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
7430 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
7431 it is clearly obsolete.
7433 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
7436 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
7437 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
7438 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
7441 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
7442 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
7443 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
7444 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
7445 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
7447 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
7448 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
7449 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
7450 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
7452 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
7454 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
7456 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
7457 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7460 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7461 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7462 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7463 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7464 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7465 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7468 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7469 with the -f command-line option.
7471 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7472 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7473 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7474 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7475 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7476 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7478 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7479 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7482 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7483 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7484 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7485 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7486 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7487 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7488 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7489 buffer is too small.
7491 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7492 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7494 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7495 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7496 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7497 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7498 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7499 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7500 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7501 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7502 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7504 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7505 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7506 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7508 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7509 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7512 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7513 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7514 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7515 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7516 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7518 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7519 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7520 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7521 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7524 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7526 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7528 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7529 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7531 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7532 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7533 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7535 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7536 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7537 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7538 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7539 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7541 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7542 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7543 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7544 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7545 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7546 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7547 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7549 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7550 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7551 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7552 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7553 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7554 the test of how many are available.
7556 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7557 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7558 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7559 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7560 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7561 new message is started.
7563 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7564 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7566 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7567 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7569 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7570 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7571 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7574 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7575 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7576 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7577 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7578 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7579 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7580 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7582 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7583 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7584 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7585 interpreted as octal.
7587 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7590 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7591 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7592 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7593 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7594 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7595 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7597 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7598 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7599 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7600 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7602 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7603 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7604 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7605 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7607 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7608 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7611 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7612 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7614 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7616 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7617 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7618 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7619 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7621 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7622 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7623 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7624 supplied", which is not helpful.
7626 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7627 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7628 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7630 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7631 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7632 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7633 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7634 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7635 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7636 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7637 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7639 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7640 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7641 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7642 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7643 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7645 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7646 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7647 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7648 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7649 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7650 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7652 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7653 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7654 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7656 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7658 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7659 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7660 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7663 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7665 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7666 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7667 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7668 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7669 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7670 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7671 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7672 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7674 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7675 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7676 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7677 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7678 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7680 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7683 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7684 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7685 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7686 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7687 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7688 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7689 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7690 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7691 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7697 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7698 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7699 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7701 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7704 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7705 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7706 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7708 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7709 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7710 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7711 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7712 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7713 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7715 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7716 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7717 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7718 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7719 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7720 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7721 the Exim test suite.
7723 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7724 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7725 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7726 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7728 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7729 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7730 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7731 specify it in this variable.
7733 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7734 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7735 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7736 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7738 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7739 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7740 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7741 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7743 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7744 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7745 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7746 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7747 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7749 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7751 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7754 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7755 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7756 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7757 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7758 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7760 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7761 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7763 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7764 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7765 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7766 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7767 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7769 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7770 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7772 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7773 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7774 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7776 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7777 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7779 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7780 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7782 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7783 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7784 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7786 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7787 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7789 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7790 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7791 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7792 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7794 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7796 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7797 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7798 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7799 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7801 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7803 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7804 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7806 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7808 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7809 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7810 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7811 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7812 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7813 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7815 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7817 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7818 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7821 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7823 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7824 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7826 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7827 550 Sender verify failed
7829 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7830 the final line of the response.
7832 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7833 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7834 all other user lookups.
7836 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7839 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7840 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7841 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7842 result into an int without checking.
7844 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7845 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7846 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7848 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7849 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7850 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7851 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7853 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7856 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7857 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7859 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7860 to the empty sender.
7862 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7863 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7864 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7865 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7866 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7867 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7868 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7871 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7872 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7873 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7874 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7877 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7878 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7880 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7883 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7884 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7886 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7888 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7889 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7892 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7893 as soon as it is encountered.
7895 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7897 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7900 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7901 recognizes a tab character.
7903 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7904 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7905 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7906 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7908 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7910 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7913 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7915 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7917 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7918 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7921 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7922 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7923 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7924 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7925 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7927 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7928 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7930 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7931 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7932 list (.included file names were always shown).
7934 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7935 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7936 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7939 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7940 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7942 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7944 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7946 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7948 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7949 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7950 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7951 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7952 failures to open the logs.
7954 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7955 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7956 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7957 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7958 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7959 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7960 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7966 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7967 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7968 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7971 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7972 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7973 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7975 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7976 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7977 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7979 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7980 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7981 causing some misleading effects.
7983 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7984 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7985 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7987 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7988 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7989 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7990 queue-runner function directly.
7996 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7999 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
8000 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
8001 was always written to the default place.
8003 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
8004 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
8005 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
8007 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
8009 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
8011 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
8012 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
8013 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
8015 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
8016 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
8019 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
8020 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
8021 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
8023 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
8024 command line option is disabled.
8026 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
8027 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
8029 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
8031 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
8033 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
8034 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
8036 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
8038 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
8039 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
8040 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
8041 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
8042 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
8043 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
8045 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
8046 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
8049 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
8050 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
8052 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
8053 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
8055 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
8056 received was valid base64.
8058 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
8059 name of the variable that was being set.
8061 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
8063 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
8064 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
8065 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
8066 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
8067 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
8068 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
8070 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
8072 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
8073 nor realm was specified.
8075 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
8076 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
8077 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
8078 errors are given to SMTP connections.
8080 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
8081 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
8082 failing to send a response to QUIT.
8084 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
8085 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
8086 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
8088 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
8089 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
8090 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
8091 some systems use these upper case variants.
8093 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
8094 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
8095 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
8096 socket" when it tried to send the third.
8098 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
8100 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
8101 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
8103 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
8104 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
8107 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
8109 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
8110 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
8111 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
8112 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
8114 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
8117 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
8118 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
8119 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
8121 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
8122 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
8124 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
8125 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
8126 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
8127 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
8129 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
8130 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
8131 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
8133 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
8135 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
8136 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
8137 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
8138 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
8141 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
8142 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
8143 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
8145 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
8147 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
8148 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
8150 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
8151 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
8153 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
8154 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
8155 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
8156 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
8157 when emails are that large.
8164 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
8165 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
8167 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
8168 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
8169 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
8171 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
8172 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
8173 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
8175 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
8176 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
8177 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
8178 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
8179 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
8181 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
8182 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
8183 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
8184 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
8185 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
8188 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
8189 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
8190 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
8191 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
8192 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
8193 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
8194 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
8195 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
8196 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
8197 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
8198 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
8199 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
8200 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
8201 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
8203 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
8204 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
8207 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
8208 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
8209 error should be diagnosed.
8211 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
8212 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
8213 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
8214 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
8215 appeared instead of "NULL".
8217 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
8218 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
8219 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
8220 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
8221 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
8222 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
8225 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
8226 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
8227 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
8233 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
8234 or receiver verification errors.
8236 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
8239 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
8240 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
8241 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
8242 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
8244 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
8245 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
8246 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
8247 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
8248 shouldn't happen again.
8250 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
8251 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
8252 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
8254 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
8255 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
8257 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
8259 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
8260 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
8262 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
8263 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
8266 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
8267 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
8268 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
8270 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
8271 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
8272 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
8273 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
8275 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
8276 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
8277 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
8278 to define what should happen).
8280 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
8281 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
8282 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
8284 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
8286 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
8288 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
8289 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
8291 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
8292 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
8293 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
8294 structure in all cases.
8296 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
8297 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
8298 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
8299 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
8301 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
8302 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
8305 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
8306 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
8308 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
8309 MD5 (which is deprecated).
8311 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
8312 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
8313 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
8315 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
8316 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
8317 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
8319 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
8320 the book and for uniformity.
8322 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
8324 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
8325 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
8326 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
8327 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
8328 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
8329 non-existent command as the problem.
8331 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
8332 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
8333 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
8335 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
8337 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
8338 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
8339 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
8341 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
8342 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
8343 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
8344 timestamps using strftime().
8346 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
8347 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
8349 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
8350 transport-time rewrites.
8352 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
8353 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
8354 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
8355 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
8357 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
8358 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
8360 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
8361 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
8362 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
8363 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
8366 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
8367 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
8368 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
8369 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
8370 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
8371 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
8372 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
8374 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
8375 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
8376 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
8377 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
8378 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
8380 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
8381 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
8382 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
8383 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
8384 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
8385 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
8386 remaining text gets split now.
8388 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
8389 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
8390 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
8391 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
8393 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
8394 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
8395 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
8396 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
8399 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
8400 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
8401 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
8402 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
8403 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
8404 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
8405 passed through if needed.
8407 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
8408 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
8409 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
8410 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
8411 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
8412 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
8414 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
8415 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
8416 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
8417 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
8418 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
8420 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
8421 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
8422 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
8423 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
8424 incorrect size information for certain domains.
8426 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
8427 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
8430 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
8431 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
8432 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
8433 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
8434 mayhem of various kinds.
8436 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
8437 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
8438 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
8439 the right test for positive values.
8441 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
8442 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
8443 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
8444 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
8445 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
8446 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
8447 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
8448 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
8449 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
8450 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
8453 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
8456 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
8457 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8460 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8461 the existing equality matching.
8463 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8464 dealing with inode numbers.
8466 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8467 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8468 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8470 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8471 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8472 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8473 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8476 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8477 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8478 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8479 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8480 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8481 relay addresses has also been removed.
8483 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8485 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8486 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8487 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8489 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8490 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8491 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8492 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8493 processing applies to CR:
8495 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8496 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8498 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8499 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8500 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8501 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8503 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8504 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8505 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8507 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8508 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8509 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8510 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8511 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8512 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8515 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8518 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8519 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8520 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8521 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8524 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8526 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8528 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8530 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8531 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8532 not considered personal.
8534 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8536 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8538 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8540 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8541 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8542 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8543 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8544 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8545 header lines, and spool format errors.
8547 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8548 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8549 for more flexibility.
8551 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8552 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8553 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8555 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8558 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8559 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8560 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8561 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8562 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8563 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8564 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8565 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8566 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8568 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8569 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8570 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8571 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8572 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8573 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8574 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8576 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8577 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8578 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8580 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8581 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8582 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8583 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8584 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8585 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8586 instead of killing the process with assert().
8588 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8589 than Unicode encoding.
8591 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8592 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8593 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8594 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8596 77. Added process_log_path.
8598 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8599 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8601 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8602 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8604 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8605 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8606 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8608 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8609 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8610 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8611 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8612 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8615 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8616 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8619 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8620 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8621 they will be used during message reception.
8627 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.