1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
11 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
12 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
14 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
15 non-signal-safe functions being used.
17 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
18 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
19 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
21 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
22 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
23 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
25 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
26 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
27 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
28 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
29 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
32 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
33 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
35 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
36 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
37 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
38 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
39 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
40 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
41 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
43 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
44 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
46 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
49 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
50 Previously this would segfault.
52 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
55 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
56 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
57 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
58 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
59 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
60 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
62 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
64 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
65 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
66 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
67 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
69 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
71 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
72 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
73 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
74 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
76 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
78 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
84 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
85 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
86 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
87 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
88 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
89 be defined in redis_servers.
91 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
92 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
94 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
95 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
96 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
99 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
100 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
102 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
103 Previously only the last row was returned.
105 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
106 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
107 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
108 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
111 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
112 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
113 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
114 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
115 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
116 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
117 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
118 Main pool for expansions.
119 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
120 active in the testsuite.
121 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
123 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
124 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
125 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
126 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
129 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
130 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
133 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
134 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
135 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
137 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
138 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
139 ClamAV interface method is removed.
141 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
142 rows affected is given instead).
144 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
145 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
147 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
148 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
149 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
150 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
151 for all multi-message initiating connections.
153 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
154 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
155 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
157 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
158 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
159 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
160 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
163 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
164 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
165 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
168 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
170 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
171 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
173 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
174 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
175 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
177 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
178 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
179 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
182 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
183 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
185 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
186 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
187 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
189 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
190 for the build is renamed.
192 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
193 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
194 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
196 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
197 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
198 result replacing the original.
200 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
201 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
202 and the resources needed to be freed.
204 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
206 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
209 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
210 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
211 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
212 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
214 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
215 length value. Previously this would segfault.
217 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
218 newer versions of the scanner.
220 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
221 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
222 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
223 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
224 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
225 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
226 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
228 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
229 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
230 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
231 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
232 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
233 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
234 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
235 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
236 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
237 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
239 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
240 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
242 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
244 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
245 allows proper process termination in container environments.
247 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
248 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
250 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
251 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
252 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
254 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
255 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
256 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
257 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
259 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
260 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
263 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
264 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
266 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
267 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
268 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
269 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
270 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
272 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
273 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
276 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
277 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
279 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
282 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
283 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
284 "bare" representation.
286 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
287 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
288 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
289 corrupted the output.
295 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
296 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
297 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
298 pairs of long lines into single ones.
300 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
301 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
303 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
304 This permits better logging.
306 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
307 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
308 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
309 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
310 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
311 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
313 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
314 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
317 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
318 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
319 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
321 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
322 than 255 are no longer allowed.
324 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
325 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
326 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
327 client, there is no benefit for these.
328 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
329 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
330 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
333 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
334 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
336 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
337 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
338 erroneously found still-pending ones.
340 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
341 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
343 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
344 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
345 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
346 signature and again for transmission.
348 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
349 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
350 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
352 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
353 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
354 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
355 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
356 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
357 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
358 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
360 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
361 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
362 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
363 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
365 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
366 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
367 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
368 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
369 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
370 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
373 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
374 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
375 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
376 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
379 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
380 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
381 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
382 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
385 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
386 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
389 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
390 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
391 banner-time rejection.
393 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
396 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
397 is the name of a transport.
400 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
402 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
403 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
405 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
406 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
407 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
410 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
411 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
412 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
413 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
415 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
416 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
417 initial verify call returned a defer.
419 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
420 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
422 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
423 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
425 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
426 if present. Previously it was ignored.
428 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
429 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
431 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
432 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
435 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
436 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
438 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
439 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
440 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
442 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
443 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
444 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
445 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
447 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
448 and confused the parent.
450 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
451 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
453 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
456 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
457 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
458 out-of-order delivery.
460 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
461 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
462 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
465 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
466 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
469 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
470 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
471 one run was done. Bug 2189.
473 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
474 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
475 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
476 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
477 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
478 message is still "Temporary local problem".
480 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
481 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
482 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
484 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
485 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
486 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
488 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
489 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
490 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
491 though a different problem.
497 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
498 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
500 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
502 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
503 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
505 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
506 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
508 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
509 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
510 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
511 before acknowledging the chunk.
513 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
514 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
515 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
517 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
518 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
519 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
522 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
523 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
524 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
526 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
527 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
529 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
530 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
531 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
532 body hash calculated value.
534 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
535 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
536 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
538 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
540 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
541 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
543 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
544 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
545 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
547 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
548 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
549 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
550 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
551 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
552 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
554 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
555 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
556 past that check, despite the cost.
558 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
559 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
560 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
562 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
563 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
564 TLS library to consume.
566 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
568 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
570 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
571 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
572 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
573 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
574 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
575 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
576 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
578 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
580 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
582 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
583 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
584 should be warning-free.
586 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
588 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
589 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
591 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
592 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
593 general solution here.
595 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
596 already-broken messages in the queue.
598 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
600 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
606 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
607 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
609 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
610 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
611 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
613 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
614 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
615 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
616 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
617 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
618 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
619 if one fails this test.
620 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
621 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
623 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
624 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
626 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
627 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
629 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
630 in rewrites and routers.
632 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
633 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
635 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
636 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
638 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
640 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
643 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
644 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
645 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
646 connection after a verify cache hit.
647 Do not update it with the verify result either.
649 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
650 when routing results in more than one destination address.
652 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
653 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
654 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
655 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
656 when the cutthrough connection is made).
658 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
659 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
661 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
662 Previously they were not counted.
664 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
665 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
666 that needed the lookup.
668 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
669 distinguished as "(=".
671 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
672 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
674 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
676 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
677 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
679 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
680 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
682 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
683 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
686 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
687 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
688 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
689 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
691 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
693 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
694 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
695 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
697 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
698 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
699 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
702 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
703 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
704 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
707 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
708 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
709 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
711 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
712 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
715 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
717 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
718 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
720 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
721 are not in the system include path.
723 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
724 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
725 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
726 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
728 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
729 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
730 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
732 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
734 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
735 an incoming connection.
737 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
740 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
741 fallback to "prime256v1".
743 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
744 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
750 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
751 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
752 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
753 client dropping the TLS connection.
755 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
756 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
758 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
759 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
760 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
761 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
764 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
765 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
766 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
767 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
768 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
769 check on the next write.
771 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
772 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
773 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
774 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
775 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
777 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
778 mime_regex ACL conditions.
780 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
781 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
782 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
784 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
785 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
786 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
787 an authenticate fail is not an error.
789 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
790 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
792 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
793 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
795 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
796 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
797 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
800 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
802 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
804 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
806 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
807 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
809 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
810 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
812 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
814 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
815 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
817 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
819 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
820 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
822 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
824 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
825 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
826 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
827 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
828 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
829 they will retry in-clear.
830 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
831 at installation time.
833 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
834 with the $config_file variable.
836 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
837 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
838 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
839 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
840 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
842 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
843 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
844 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
845 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
846 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
848 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
850 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
851 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
852 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
853 list order is no longer honoured.
855 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
858 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
859 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
861 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
862 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
863 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
864 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
866 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
867 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
869 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
870 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
872 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
873 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
875 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
877 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
878 cached by the daemon.
880 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
881 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
883 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
884 keys are given for lookup.
886 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
887 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
888 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
889 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
891 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
892 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
893 server-side so match that on older versions.
895 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
896 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
897 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
899 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
900 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
902 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
903 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
904 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
905 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
906 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
907 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
908 initial truncated version.
910 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
912 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
914 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
915 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
917 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
919 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
921 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
922 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
925 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
926 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
929 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
930 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
932 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
933 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
936 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
937 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
938 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
940 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
941 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
942 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
943 extraction. Accept either.
949 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
952 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
954 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
957 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
958 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
959 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
960 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
962 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
963 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
964 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
966 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
967 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
968 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
971 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
974 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
975 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
976 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
977 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
978 have a dsn_lasthop option.
980 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
981 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
982 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
984 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
986 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
987 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
989 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
990 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
992 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
995 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
996 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
998 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
999 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1000 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1002 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1003 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1004 specify a port-range.
1006 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1007 timeout value per server.
1009 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1010 now have the list separator specified.
1012 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1015 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1018 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1020 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1021 rather than the verbs used.
1023 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1024 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1026 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1028 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1029 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1031 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1032 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1034 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1035 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1037 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1039 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1041 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1042 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1043 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1044 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1046 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1048 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1049 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1051 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1052 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1054 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1056 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1058 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1060 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1061 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1063 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1064 added for tls authenticator.
1066 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1072 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1073 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1074 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1075 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1076 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1077 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1078 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1080 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1081 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1082 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1083 function when detected.
1085 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1086 cause callback expansion.
1088 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1089 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1090 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1091 instead of bool when processing it.
1093 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1094 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1096 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1098 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1100 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1102 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1103 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1105 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1106 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1107 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1108 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1109 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1110 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1112 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1113 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1116 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1117 version 3.3.6 or later.
1119 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1120 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1121 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1122 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1123 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1124 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1127 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1128 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1130 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1131 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1132 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1135 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1136 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1137 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1139 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1140 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1142 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1143 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1146 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1148 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1149 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1151 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1152 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1155 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1157 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1160 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1161 output list separator was used.
1166 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1167 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1170 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1171 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1173 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1175 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1176 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1182 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1184 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1185 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1186 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1187 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1188 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1189 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1191 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1192 utilities have not been installed.
1194 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1195 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1197 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1198 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1200 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1201 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1202 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1203 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1205 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1207 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1208 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1210 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1213 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1215 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1216 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1217 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1219 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1220 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1221 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1222 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1223 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1224 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1226 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1228 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1229 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1231 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1234 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1236 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1238 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1239 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1241 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1242 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1244 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1246 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1248 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1249 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1251 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1252 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1253 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1255 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1256 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1257 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1260 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1262 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1263 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1266 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1267 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1270 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1271 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1273 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1274 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1276 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1278 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1279 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1280 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1282 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1283 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1285 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1286 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1289 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1290 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1291 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1293 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1295 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1296 Christian Aistleitner.
1298 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1300 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1301 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1303 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1304 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1306 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1307 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1309 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1310 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1312 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1313 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1315 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1316 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1317 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1319 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1321 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1322 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1325 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1327 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1328 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1335 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1337 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1338 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1340 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1343 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1344 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1347 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1349 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1350 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1351 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1352 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1353 using channel bindings instead).
1355 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1356 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1357 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1358 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1359 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1362 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1364 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1366 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1367 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1369 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1370 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1371 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1373 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1375 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1377 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1378 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1380 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1382 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1384 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1386 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1387 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1389 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1391 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1392 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1395 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1396 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1398 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1399 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1402 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1404 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1406 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1407 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1409 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1412 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1413 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1415 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1416 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1418 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1420 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1422 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1425 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1428 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1430 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1431 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1432 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1433 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1435 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1437 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1438 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1439 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1440 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1443 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1444 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1445 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1447 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1448 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1449 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1450 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1452 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1453 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1454 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1455 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1456 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1457 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1458 delivery, as in LMTP.
1460 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1461 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1463 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1465 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1469 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1470 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1471 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1472 username as equal to the username.
1474 This change corrects that bug.
1476 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1477 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1478 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1480 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1482 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1483 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1484 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1485 NULL dereference and crash.
1487 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1489 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1490 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1491 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1493 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1495 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1496 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1497 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1498 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1499 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1500 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1501 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1502 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1503 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1504 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1505 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1507 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1508 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1510 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1511 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1514 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1515 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1516 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1517 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1518 an empty string is now equivalent.
1520 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1521 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1522 not performing validation itself.
1524 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1525 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1527 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1530 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1532 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1533 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1534 other false fix of the same issue.
1535 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1538 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1539 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1541 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1542 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1543 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1545 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1546 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1547 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1549 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1551 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1553 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1554 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1556 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1559 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1560 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1561 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1562 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1563 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1565 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1566 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1568 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1569 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1572 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1573 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1574 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1575 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1577 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1579 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1580 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1581 from multiple comments on this bug.
1583 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1585 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1586 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1589 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1590 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1592 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1593 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1599 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1601 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1607 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1608 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1609 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1611 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1613 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1616 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1618 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1620 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1622 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1623 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1625 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1626 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1628 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1629 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1631 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1632 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1633 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1635 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1637 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1638 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1640 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1642 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
1644 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1645 non-compliant senders.
1646 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1648 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
1649 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
1650 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1652 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1653 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1654 in spool file corruption.
1656 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1657 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1658 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1661 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1662 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1663 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1665 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1666 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1668 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1670 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1672 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1674 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
1675 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1676 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1678 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1679 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
1680 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1681 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
1683 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1684 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1686 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1687 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1688 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1689 resolver implementation change.
1691 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1692 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1694 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1696 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1698 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1699 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1701 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1702 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1704 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1705 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1707 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1708 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1709 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1710 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1711 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1713 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1715 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1716 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1717 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1719 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1721 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1722 read-only, out of scope).
1723 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1725 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1726 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1727 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1728 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1730 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1732 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1733 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1734 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1735 real issues in debug logging.
1737 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1738 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1740 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1741 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1742 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1744 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1745 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1746 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1749 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1750 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1752 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1753 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1754 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1755 needs to override this, it can.
1757 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1758 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1759 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1761 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1762 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1763 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1764 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1766 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1772 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1773 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1775 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1777 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1780 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1781 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1783 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1784 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1785 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1787 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1788 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1789 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1790 not safe for signals.
1792 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1793 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1794 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1795 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1798 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1800 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1801 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1802 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1803 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1804 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1806 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1807 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1808 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1809 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1810 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1811 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1813 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1814 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1815 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1816 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1818 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1819 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1820 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1821 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1823 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1824 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1825 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1826 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1827 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1828 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1829 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1830 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1831 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1833 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1834 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1835 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1836 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1838 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1839 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1840 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1841 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1842 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1843 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1844 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1845 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1846 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1847 details in the main documentation.
1849 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1851 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1853 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1854 repository when doing development or release builds.
1856 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1857 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
1859 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1860 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1863 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1865 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
1866 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1868 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1869 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1871 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
1872 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1874 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1875 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
1877 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1878 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1880 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1882 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1885 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
1886 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1887 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1889 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1891 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
1893 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1894 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1900 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1902 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1903 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1905 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1907 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1909 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1912 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1913 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
1915 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1916 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1918 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1919 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1921 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1924 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
1925 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1927 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1928 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1929 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1930 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1932 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1933 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
1939 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
1942 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1943 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1944 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1946 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1947 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1949 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1950 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1951 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1953 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1954 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1956 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1957 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1959 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1960 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1962 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1963 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1965 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1966 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
1968 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1971 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1972 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1974 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1975 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1977 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1978 SQL string expansion failure details.
1979 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1981 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1982 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1984 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1985 extern declarations in function scope.
1986 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1988 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1989 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1990 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1993 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1994 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1996 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1997 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1999 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2000 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2002 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2003 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2005 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2006 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2009 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2011 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2013 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2014 Patch by Simon Arlott
2016 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2017 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2023 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2024 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2026 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2027 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2029 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2031 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2032 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2033 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2035 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2036 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2037 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2039 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2040 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2041 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2042 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2044 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2045 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2046 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2047 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2049 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2050 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2051 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2054 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2057 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2058 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2059 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2060 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2061 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2067 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2068 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2069 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2071 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2072 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2074 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2076 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2078 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2080 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2082 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2084 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2085 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2086 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2087 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2089 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2090 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2091 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2092 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2093 more caution in buffer sizes.
2095 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2097 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2099 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2101 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2103 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2105 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2107 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2109 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2110 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2111 ignore trailing whitespace.
2113 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2115 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2118 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2119 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2121 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2122 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2123 Notification from John Horne.
2125 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2128 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2129 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2132 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2135 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2136 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2137 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2139 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2140 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2141 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2144 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2145 option (effectively making it always true).
2147 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2148 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2150 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2151 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2153 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2154 run-time user, instead of root.
2156 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2157 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2159 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2160 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2163 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2164 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2165 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2167 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2169 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2175 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2176 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2179 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2180 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2183 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2184 Patch from Alain Williams
2186 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2188 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2189 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2191 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2192 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2194 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2196 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2198 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2199 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2201 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2203 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2205 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2206 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2207 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2209 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2210 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2212 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2213 Patch by Simon Arlott
2215 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2216 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2222 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2224 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2226 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2228 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2230 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2236 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2237 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2239 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2240 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2243 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2244 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2245 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2247 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2248 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2250 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2251 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2252 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2253 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2255 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2256 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2257 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2259 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2261 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2263 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2264 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2266 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2268 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2269 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2270 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2271 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2273 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2274 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2276 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2278 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2280 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2281 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2283 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2284 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2286 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2287 that they are available at delivery time.
2289 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2291 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2292 incoming_port log selectors.
2294 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2295 setting expands to an empty string.
2297 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2298 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2300 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2301 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2303 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2304 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2306 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2307 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2309 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2310 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2312 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2313 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2315 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2317 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2318 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2320 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2321 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2323 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2325 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2326 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2328 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2330 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2332 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2335 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2336 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2338 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2339 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2341 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2342 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2344 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2345 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2347 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2348 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2350 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2351 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2353 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2354 plus update to original patch.
2356 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2358 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2359 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2361 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2363 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2365 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2367 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2369 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2370 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2372 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2373 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2375 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2376 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2378 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2379 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2381 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2383 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2385 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2387 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2393 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2394 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2395 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2397 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2398 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2399 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2400 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2401 build errors in sieve.c.
2403 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2404 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2405 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2407 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2409 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2411 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2413 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2419 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2421 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2422 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2423 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2424 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2425 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2426 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2427 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2428 for iplsearch lookups.
2430 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2431 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2432 previously such lookups could never work.
2434 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2435 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2436 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2438 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2441 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2442 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2443 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2444 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2445 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2446 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2448 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2449 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2451 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2452 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2453 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2454 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2455 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2456 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2458 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2461 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2463 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2464 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2467 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2468 by clients under certain conditions.
2470 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2471 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2473 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2475 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2476 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2478 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2480 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2482 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2484 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2485 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2487 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2489 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2490 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2492 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2494 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2496 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2497 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2498 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2499 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2501 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2502 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2503 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2505 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2506 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2508 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2510 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2512 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2514 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2515 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2516 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2522 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2523 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2526 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2527 issue a MAIL command.
2529 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2531 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2533 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2534 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2535 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2536 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2537 item. This has been fixed.
2539 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2540 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2542 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2543 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2545 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2546 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2547 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2549 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2551 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2552 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2553 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2554 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2555 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2557 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2558 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2559 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2561 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2562 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2563 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2564 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2566 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2568 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2570 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2571 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2572 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2573 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2574 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2576 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2578 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2579 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2580 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2583 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2585 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2587 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2589 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2591 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2593 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2594 no_callout_flush is set.
2596 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2597 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2598 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2601 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2603 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2604 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2605 other ACL rejections are.
2607 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2608 with slight modification.
2610 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2611 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2613 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2614 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2617 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2618 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2620 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2622 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2623 expansion side effects.
2625 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2626 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2627 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2630 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2631 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2632 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2634 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2635 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2636 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2637 were accidentally chopped off.
2639 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2640 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2641 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2642 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2643 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2644 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2645 pipelining has not been advertised.
2647 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2649 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2650 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2651 This has been fixed.
2653 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2654 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2655 reported on Solaris.
2657 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2658 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2659 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2660 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2661 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2662 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2663 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2665 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2668 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2670 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2672 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2673 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
2674 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2675 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2676 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2677 criteria to be more general.
2679 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2680 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2681 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2682 host_all_ignored option.
2684 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2685 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2686 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2687 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2688 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2689 is what is supposed to happen).
2691 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2692 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2693 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2694 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2695 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2698 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2699 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2700 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2701 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2702 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2703 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2706 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2708 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2709 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2711 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2712 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2714 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2716 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2718 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2719 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2720 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2721 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2722 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2723 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2724 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2725 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2726 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2727 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2728 least in a lot of common cases.
2730 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2731 advertised in response to EHLO.
2737 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2738 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2740 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2741 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2743 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2744 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2745 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2747 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2748 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2749 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2750 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2751 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2757 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2758 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2761 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2762 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2763 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2765 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2766 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2767 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2768 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2769 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2770 rather than extend the field.
2776 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2777 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2778 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2779 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2782 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2783 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2784 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2786 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2787 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2788 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2790 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2791 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2792 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2795 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2796 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2797 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2798 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2799 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2800 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2801 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2802 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2803 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2804 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2805 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2807 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2810 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2811 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2812 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2813 ignores EPIPE as well.
2815 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2816 (quoted-printable decoding).
2818 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
2819 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
2821 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2823 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2825 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2827 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
2828 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
2830 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2833 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2834 miscellaneous code fixes
2836 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2839 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2840 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2841 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2842 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2843 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2844 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2845 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2846 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
2848 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
2849 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
2850 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2851 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2853 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2854 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2855 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2856 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2857 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2858 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2859 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2860 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2861 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2863 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2866 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2867 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2868 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2869 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2870 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2871 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2872 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2873 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2875 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2876 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2879 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2880 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2881 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2882 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2883 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2884 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2885 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2886 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2887 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2888 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2889 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2890 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2891 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2893 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2894 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2895 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2896 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2897 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2898 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2899 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2901 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2902 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2903 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2904 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2905 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2906 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2907 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2908 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2909 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2910 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2912 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2913 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2914 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2915 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2916 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2918 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2919 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2920 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2921 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2922 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2923 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2924 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2926 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2927 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2928 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2929 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2930 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2931 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2934 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
2935 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2936 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2939 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2940 if any retry times were supplied.
2942 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2943 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2944 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2946 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2948 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2950 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2951 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2952 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2953 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
2954 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2955 before) are ignored.
2957 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2958 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2960 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2961 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2962 committing the later change.]
2964 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2965 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2966 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2967 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2968 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2969 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2970 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2971 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2972 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2974 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2975 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2976 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2977 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2978 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2979 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2980 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2981 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2982 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2984 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2985 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2986 hammering the server.
2988 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2989 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2991 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2993 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2994 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2995 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2997 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2998 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2999 one case where this was not true.
3001 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3002 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3003 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3004 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3007 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3008 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3009 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3010 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3011 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3012 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3013 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3014 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3015 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3018 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3019 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3020 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3021 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3023 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3024 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3026 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3027 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3028 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3030 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3032 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3034 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3036 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3037 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3038 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3039 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3041 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3042 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3044 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3045 be meaningful with "accept".
3047 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3048 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3050 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3051 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3052 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3054 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3055 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3056 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3057 there is data to show.
3058 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3060 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3061 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3062 as well as the number of messages.
3064 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3065 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3066 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3068 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3069 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3070 have a flag are now skipped.
3072 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3073 Added the -emptyok flag.
3075 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3076 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3078 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3079 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3080 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3082 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3085 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3086 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3088 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3090 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3091 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3093 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3095 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3096 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3097 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3098 contravention of the specifications.
3100 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3101 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3102 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3104 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3105 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3106 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3108 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3110 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3111 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3112 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3113 some point in the past.
3115 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3116 transport during callout processing was broken.
3118 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3119 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3121 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3122 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3124 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3125 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3127 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3133 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3134 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3136 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3137 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3138 there is data to show.
3139 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3141 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3142 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3144 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3145 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3147 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3148 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3150 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3151 submissions from trusted users.
3153 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3154 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3156 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3157 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3158 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3159 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3160 there is now a framework to start from.
3162 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3163 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3164 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3166 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3168 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3170 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3172 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3173 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3174 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3176 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3179 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3180 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3181 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3183 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3184 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3185 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3188 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3189 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3190 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3191 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3192 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3194 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3195 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3197 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3199 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3200 operations in malware.c.
3202 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3205 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3206 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3207 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3210 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3211 statements to "add_header".
3213 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3214 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3216 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3217 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3220 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3224 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3225 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3226 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3229 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3230 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3232 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3233 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3235 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3236 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3237 any possible encoding problems.
3239 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3240 but not after initializing Perl.
3242 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3243 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3244 apparently, which is not desirable.
3246 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3249 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3252 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3254 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3255 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3256 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3257 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3259 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3260 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3261 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3263 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3264 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3265 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3268 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3269 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3270 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3271 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3272 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3278 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3279 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3281 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3284 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3285 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3286 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3287 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3288 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3289 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3290 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3291 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3294 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3296 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3297 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3298 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3300 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3301 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3302 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3305 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3306 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3308 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3309 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3310 option (which defaults to 0600).
3312 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3314 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3315 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3316 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3317 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3318 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3319 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3320 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3322 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3328 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3329 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3330 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3331 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3332 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3333 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3336 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3337 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3339 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3341 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3342 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3343 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3344 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3345 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3348 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3349 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3351 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3352 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3353 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3354 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3355 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3357 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3358 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3359 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3360 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3362 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3363 be the same on different OS.
3365 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3368 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3369 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3371 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3374 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3375 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3376 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3377 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3378 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3379 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3382 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3383 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3384 when Exim was called.
3386 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3387 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3389 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3390 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3391 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3392 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3394 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3395 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3396 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3397 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3400 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3401 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3402 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3404 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3405 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3406 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3408 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3411 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3412 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3413 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3414 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3415 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3416 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3417 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3418 values from the SRV records were lost.
3420 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3421 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3422 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3424 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3425 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3426 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3428 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3429 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3430 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3431 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3432 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3433 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3434 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3435 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3436 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3437 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3439 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3440 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3441 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3443 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3444 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3446 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3447 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3448 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3449 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3452 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3453 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3454 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3456 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3457 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3458 PH/23 above applies.
3460 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3461 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3462 (for which there is an explicit test).
3464 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3466 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3467 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3468 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3469 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3470 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3472 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3473 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3474 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3475 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3477 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3478 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3479 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3481 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3483 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3485 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3486 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3487 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3489 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3490 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3491 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3492 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3493 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3495 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3496 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3497 the message gets confusing).
3499 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3500 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3501 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3502 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3504 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3505 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3506 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3507 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3510 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3511 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3512 the different processes.
3514 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3516 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3518 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3519 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3521 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3522 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3524 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3525 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3526 messages matching specified criteria.
3528 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3530 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3531 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3533 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3534 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3535 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3536 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3537 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3538 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3539 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3540 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3541 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3542 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3544 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3545 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3546 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3548 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3550 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3551 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3552 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3553 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3554 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3555 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3556 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3559 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3560 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3562 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3564 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3566 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3568 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3569 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3570 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3571 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3572 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3573 size of the count of files.
3575 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3577 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3580 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3581 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3582 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3583 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3585 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3586 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3587 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3589 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3590 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3591 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3592 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3593 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3595 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3596 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3598 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3599 will now be deprecated.
3601 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3603 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3604 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3605 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3607 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3608 with very large, slow to parse queues
3610 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3612 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3614 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3615 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3616 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3619 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3620 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3621 Sieve code now uses this.
3623 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3624 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3626 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3627 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3629 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3631 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3632 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3633 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3634 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3635 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3637 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3638 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3639 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3640 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3642 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3644 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3646 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3647 is preferred over IPv4.
3649 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3650 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3651 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3652 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3653 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3654 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3655 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3657 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3658 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3659 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3661 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3663 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3664 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3665 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3666 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3667 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3668 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3669 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3670 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3671 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3672 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3673 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3675 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3676 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3677 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3683 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3685 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3686 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3688 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3689 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3690 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3692 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3694 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3697 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3700 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3701 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3702 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3705 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3706 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3708 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3709 inside the third argument.
3711 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3712 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3715 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3716 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3718 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3719 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3721 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3723 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3724 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3727 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3729 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3730 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3731 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3732 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3733 identical. For example:
3735 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3737 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3738 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3739 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3741 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3742 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3743 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3744 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3746 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3747 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3748 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3751 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3753 o fixes some comments
3754 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3755 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3756 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3757 and documents the missing references header update
3761 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3762 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
3765 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3766 Electronic Mail") by including:
3768 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3770 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3771 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
3772 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3773 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3774 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3776 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3778 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3780 The auto-replied keyword:
3782 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3783 message by an automatic process,
3785 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3787 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3788 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3790 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3791 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3794 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3795 to the default Received: header definition.
3797 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3799 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3800 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3801 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3803 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3804 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3805 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3807 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3808 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3809 and treats the condition as false.
3811 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3813 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3814 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3815 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3816 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3817 not changing the active code.
3819 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3820 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3822 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3823 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3825 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3828 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3829 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3830 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3831 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3832 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3833 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3834 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3835 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3836 the text comparison.
3838 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3839 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3840 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3841 The same fix has been applied.
3847 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3848 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3851 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3852 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3854 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3856 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3857 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3858 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3859 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3860 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3862 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3863 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3864 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3865 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3868 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3876 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3877 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3879 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3881 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3883 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3884 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3885 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3887 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3888 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3889 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3891 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3892 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3895 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3896 ${stat: expansion item.
3898 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3899 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3901 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3902 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3905 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3907 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3910 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3911 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3913 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3915 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3916 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3917 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3918 the end of the subprocess.
3920 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3921 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3922 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3923 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3924 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3926 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3928 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3930 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3931 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3933 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3935 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3937 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3938 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3941 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3943 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3944 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3945 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3947 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3948 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3950 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3951 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3953 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3954 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3956 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3957 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3959 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3960 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3961 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3962 contributed by a Radius user.
3964 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3965 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3967 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3968 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3970 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3973 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3974 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3977 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3978 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3979 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3980 header lines when this was not necessary.
3982 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3984 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3985 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3986 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3989 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3992 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3993 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
3994 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3995 return code was incorrect.
3997 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3999 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4001 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4003 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4005 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4006 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4007 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4008 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4009 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4012 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4014 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4015 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4016 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4017 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4018 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4019 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4020 which is clearly wrong.
4022 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4024 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4025 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4026 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4029 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4030 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4032 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4034 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4035 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4037 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4038 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4040 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4041 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4043 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4044 recipients, not senders.
4046 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4047 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4049 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4051 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4053 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4054 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4055 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4056 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4058 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4060 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4061 clock is set back in time.
4063 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4064 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4066 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4067 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4069 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4070 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4073 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4074 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4077 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4080 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4082 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4083 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4084 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4086 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4087 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4088 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4089 helo verification defer as a failure.
4091 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4092 actual error message.
4098 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4100 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4101 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4102 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4103 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4105 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4107 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4108 can still be requested.
4110 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4111 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4112 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4113 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4115 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4116 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4117 circumstances, but probably never did.
4119 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4120 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4121 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4124 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4126 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4127 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4129 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4131 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4133 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4134 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4135 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4136 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4137 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4138 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4140 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4141 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4142 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4143 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4144 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4145 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4147 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4148 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4150 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4151 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4153 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4154 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4156 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4158 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4160 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4162 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4164 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4166 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4168 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4170 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4171 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4172 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4174 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4175 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4176 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4177 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4179 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4180 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4181 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4183 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4184 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4185 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4186 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4188 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4189 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4192 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4193 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4194 should work with maildirs and everything.
4196 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4197 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4199 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4202 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4203 function for BDB 4.3.
4205 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4207 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4208 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4211 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4212 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4213 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4214 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4215 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4216 formatting function string_vformat().
4218 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4219 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4220 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4221 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4222 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4223 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4224 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4225 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4227 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4228 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4231 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4232 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4234 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4235 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4236 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4237 test. It is now used for both.
4239 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4240 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4241 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4242 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4243 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4244 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4246 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4247 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4248 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4251 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4252 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4253 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4255 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4256 experimental DomainKeys support:
4258 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4259 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4260 the control was given.
4262 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4264 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4266 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4268 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4269 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4270 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4273 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4274 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4275 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4276 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4277 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4278 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4281 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4282 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4283 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4284 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4285 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4286 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4288 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4289 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4290 do -d+all out of habit.
4292 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4293 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4296 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4297 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4298 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4299 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4300 record types that Exim uses.
4302 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4303 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4304 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4305 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4306 non-existent file that was broken.
4308 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4309 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4311 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4312 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4313 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4315 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4317 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4318 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4319 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4320 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4321 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4324 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4325 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4326 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4327 at a slight CPU cost.
4329 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4330 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4332 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4335 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4337 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4338 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4344 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4345 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4347 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4349 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4351 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4352 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4354 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4355 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4356 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4357 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4358 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4359 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4362 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4363 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4364 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4365 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4368 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4369 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4370 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4371 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4372 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4373 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4374 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4377 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4378 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4380 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4381 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4382 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4383 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4384 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4385 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4387 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4388 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4389 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4390 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4392 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4395 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4396 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4398 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4399 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4400 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4401 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4404 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4406 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4407 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4409 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4410 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4411 to what was transported.)
4413 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4415 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4416 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4417 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4418 spamd_address settings.
4420 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4421 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4422 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4423 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4424 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4426 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4428 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4429 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4430 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4431 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4432 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4434 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4435 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4437 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4438 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4439 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4440 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4441 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4442 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4443 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4446 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4447 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4448 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4449 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4450 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4451 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4452 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4455 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4457 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4458 driver and ACL definitions.
4460 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4461 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4463 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4464 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4465 understands it better than I do:
4467 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4468 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4470 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4471 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4472 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4473 => three warnings about OTP not working
4474 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4476 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4477 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4478 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4479 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4481 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4482 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4484 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4485 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4486 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4488 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4489 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4492 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4493 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4496 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4497 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4498 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4500 warn !verify = sender
4501 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4503 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4504 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4506 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4508 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4509 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4511 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4512 nomenclature these days.)
4514 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4515 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4517 PH/30 In these circumstances:
4518 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4519 . First host does not offer TLS;
4520 . First host accepts first address;
4521 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4522 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4523 . Second host accepts second address.
4524 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4525 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4528 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4529 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4530 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4531 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4532 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4534 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4535 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4537 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4538 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4540 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4541 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4542 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4544 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4545 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4548 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4550 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4551 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4552 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4553 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4554 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4555 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4556 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4558 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4559 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4560 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4561 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4562 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4564 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4565 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4568 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4569 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4570 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4571 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4572 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4573 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4575 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4577 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4578 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4579 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4580 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4581 printable escape sequences.
4583 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4584 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4587 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4588 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4591 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4592 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4593 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4594 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4595 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4597 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4598 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4599 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4601 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4603 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4604 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4607 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4608 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4609 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4610 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4611 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4612 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4613 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4614 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4615 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4618 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4619 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4620 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4621 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4625 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4626 ----------------------------------------
4628 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4629 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4630 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4631 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4632 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4633 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4636 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
4637 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4638 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4639 historical information.
4645 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4647 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
4648 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
4650 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4651 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4654 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4655 filter fails to execute.
4657 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4658 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4659 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4660 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4661 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4663 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4665 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4666 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4667 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4668 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4670 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4671 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4672 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4673 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4674 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4676 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4678 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4680 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4681 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4682 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4683 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4685 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4686 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4687 sender verification.
4689 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4690 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4692 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4694 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4697 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4698 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4700 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4701 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4703 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4704 information about exactly what failed.
4706 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4708 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4709 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4710 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4712 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4713 It is now set to "smtps".
4715 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4716 ignore_target_hosts.
4718 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4719 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4720 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4721 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4724 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4725 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4726 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4728 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4729 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4730 wake it up if nothing else does.
4732 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4733 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4734 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4737 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4738 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4740 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4742 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4743 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4744 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4745 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4746 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4747 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4748 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4749 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4751 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4752 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4753 than one IP address.
4755 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4756 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4757 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4758 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4760 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4761 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4762 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4763 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4764 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4767 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4768 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4769 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4770 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4772 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4773 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4776 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4777 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4778 $sender_host_address.
4780 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4781 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4782 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4783 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4784 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4787 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4789 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4790 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4792 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4793 just the host names, not the priorities.
4795 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4796 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4797 controlled by a keyword.
4799 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4800 multiple records are returned.
4802 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4803 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4806 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4808 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4809 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4811 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4812 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4813 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4815 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4817 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4819 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4821 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4822 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4823 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4824 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4825 because the tests only now provoked it.
4827 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4828 (this can affect the format of dates).
4830 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4831 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4832 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4833 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4835 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4837 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4838 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4839 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4840 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4842 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4843 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4844 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4846 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4849 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4850 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4851 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4852 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4853 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4854 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4857 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4858 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4859 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4862 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4863 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4864 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4866 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4867 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4868 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4869 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4870 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4871 so I produce this patch..."
4873 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4874 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4877 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4878 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4879 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4880 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4883 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4885 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4886 long debug lines gets shown.
4888 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4889 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4891 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4893 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4894 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4895 of $primary_hostname.
4897 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4898 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4899 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4900 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4901 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4902 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4903 by change 4.50/55 above.
4905 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4906 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4907 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4908 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4909 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4910 running as the user.
4913 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4914 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4915 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4918 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4919 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4921 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4922 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4923 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4924 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4925 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4927 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4928 This has been fixed.
4930 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4931 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4932 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4933 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4936 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4938 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4939 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4940 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4941 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4943 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4944 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4946 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4947 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4948 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4950 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4951 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4952 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4955 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4956 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4957 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4959 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4960 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4961 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4962 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4964 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4965 during host lookups.
4967 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4968 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4970 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4972 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4973 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4974 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4975 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4976 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4979 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4980 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4982 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4983 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4984 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4986 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4988 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4989 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4990 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4991 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4992 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4993 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4996 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4997 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4998 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4999 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5000 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5002 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5005 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5007 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5008 "vacation" handling.
5010 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5011 OS variants using glibc.
5013 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5016 ----------------------------------------------------
5017 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5018 ----------------------------------------------------
5024 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5025 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5028 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5029 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5032 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5033 filter fails to execute.
5035 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5036 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5037 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5038 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5039 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5041 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5042 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5043 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5044 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5046 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5047 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5048 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5049 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5050 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5052 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5054 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5055 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5056 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5057 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5059 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5060 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5061 sender verification.
5063 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5064 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5066 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5067 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5069 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5070 ignore_target_hosts.
5072 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5073 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5074 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5075 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5078 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5079 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5080 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5082 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5083 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5084 wake it up if nothing else does.
5086 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5087 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5088 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5091 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5092 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5094 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5096 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5097 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5100 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5101 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5104 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5105 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5106 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5107 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5108 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5111 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5112 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5115 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5116 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5117 $sender_host_address.
5119 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5121 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5122 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5123 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5125 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5128 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5129 (this can affect the format of dates).
5131 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5132 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5133 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5134 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5136 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5137 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5138 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5140 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5141 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5142 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5143 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5145 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5146 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5147 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5149 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5152 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5153 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5154 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5155 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5156 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5157 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5160 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5161 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5162 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5163 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5166 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5167 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5168 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5169 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5170 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5171 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5172 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5174 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5175 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5176 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5177 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5178 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5179 running as the user.
5182 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5183 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5184 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5187 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5188 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5189 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5190 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5191 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5193 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5194 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5195 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5196 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5199 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5200 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5201 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5202 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5203 because the tests only now provoked it.
5209 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5210 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5211 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5212 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5213 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5214 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5215 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5217 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5218 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5221 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5223 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5225 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5226 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5229 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5230 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5231 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5232 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5233 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5235 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5236 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5238 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5240 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5242 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5245 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5246 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5248 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5249 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5250 affecting debugging statements).
5252 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5254 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5255 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5256 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5257 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5258 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5259 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5260 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5261 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5262 after the received time, and all would be well.
5264 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5265 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5266 condition in an expansion string.
5268 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5270 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5271 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5272 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5273 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5274 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5275 job under whatever limits there are.
5277 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5279 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5282 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5283 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5284 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5285 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5288 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5289 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5290 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5291 binary data in such strings.
5293 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5295 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5296 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5297 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5298 failure, which is pointless.
5300 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5302 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5304 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5305 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5306 Sender: header lines.
5308 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5309 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5310 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5312 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5313 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5314 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5315 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5316 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5319 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5320 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5321 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5322 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5323 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5325 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5326 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5327 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5330 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5331 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5333 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5334 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5336 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5338 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5340 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5342 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5345 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5347 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5349 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5350 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5351 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5352 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5354 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5355 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5361 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5362 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5363 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5365 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5366 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5367 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5368 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5369 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5370 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5372 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5373 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5374 verification failure".
5376 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5377 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5378 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5379 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5381 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5382 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5383 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5384 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5385 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5386 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5387 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5388 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5389 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5390 treated as a timeout.
5392 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5393 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5394 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5395 not set for Exim filters).
5397 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5398 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5399 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5401 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5403 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5404 try to make them clearer.
5406 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5407 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5409 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5411 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5413 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5414 only the Cygwin environment.
5416 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5417 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5418 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5419 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5420 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5422 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5423 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5424 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5425 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5426 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5427 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5428 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5430 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5431 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5433 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5435 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5436 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5437 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5439 To: susanne@some.where
5441 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5442 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5443 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5444 of addresses in From: header lines).
5446 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5447 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5448 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5450 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5451 treated as non-personal.
5453 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5454 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5456 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5458 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5460 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5461 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5462 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5464 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5465 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5467 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5468 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5469 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5470 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5471 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5472 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5474 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5475 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5476 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5477 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5478 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5479 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5480 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5481 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5483 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5485 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5486 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5488 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5489 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5490 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5492 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5493 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5495 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5496 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5497 rather than long int.
5499 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5501 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5507 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5508 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5509 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5510 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5511 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5512 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5518 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5519 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5521 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5522 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5523 socklen_t is defined.
5525 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5528 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5531 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5532 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5533 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5534 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5535 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5537 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5538 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5539 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5540 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5542 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5543 of flapping under certain conditions.
5545 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5546 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5547 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5549 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5551 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5553 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5554 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5555 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5556 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5558 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5559 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5560 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5561 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5562 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5563 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5564 preserved with the message after it was received.
5566 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5567 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5568 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5569 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5570 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5571 test suite worked just fine.
5573 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5574 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5575 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5577 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5578 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5581 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5582 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5583 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5584 does not fully solve it.
5586 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5587 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5588 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5589 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5590 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5592 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5593 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5594 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5596 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5597 string, for example:
5599 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5601 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5602 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5603 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5604 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5605 the routers could not see them.
5607 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5608 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5610 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5611 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5614 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5615 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5616 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5617 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5618 that needed quoting.
5620 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5621 was not being matched caselessly.
5623 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5626 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5627 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5628 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5629 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5630 when use_sender is false.
5632 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5634 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5636 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5638 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5639 the configuration file.
5641 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5642 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5644 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5646 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5647 bytes in the message body.
5649 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5650 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5653 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5655 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5657 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5658 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5659 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5660 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5667 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5668 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5670 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5671 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5672 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5673 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5674 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5676 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5677 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5679 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5680 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5681 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5683 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5684 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5685 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5687 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5690 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5691 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5692 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5693 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5694 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5695 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5696 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5702 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5703 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5704 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5705 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5706 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5707 default (and expected) setting.
5709 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5710 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5711 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5712 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5714 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5715 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5717 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5720 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5721 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5722 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5723 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5724 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5725 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5727 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5728 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5729 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5731 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5732 part (NOT match_host).
5734 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5736 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5737 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5738 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5739 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5740 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5741 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5742 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5743 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5744 the same named file.
5746 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5747 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5750 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5751 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5752 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5753 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5756 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5757 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5758 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5760 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5762 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5764 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5766 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5767 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5769 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5770 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5771 before starting the TLS session.
5773 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5775 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5776 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5778 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5779 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5780 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5781 colon in the middle).
5787 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5788 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5789 multiple configurations are in use.
5791 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5792 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5793 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5794 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5795 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5796 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5798 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5799 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5801 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5802 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5803 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5805 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5806 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5809 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5810 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5812 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5814 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5815 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5817 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5825 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5826 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5827 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5828 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5829 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5831 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5834 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5835 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5836 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5837 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5838 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5839 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5841 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5842 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5843 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5844 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5845 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5846 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5847 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5850 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5851 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5852 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5853 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5854 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5856 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5858 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5859 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5860 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5862 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5864 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5865 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5866 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5869 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5870 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5872 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5873 Three changes have been made:
5875 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5876 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5877 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5878 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5879 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5881 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5884 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5885 the modified behaviour.
5891 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5894 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5895 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5897 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5898 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5899 try to track down a specific problem.
5901 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5902 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5903 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5905 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5908 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5909 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5910 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5911 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5912 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5913 some earlier ones do not.
5915 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5917 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5918 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5919 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5920 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5921 address literals are enabled, of course).
5923 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5925 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5926 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5927 by a command such as
5931 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5933 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5935 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5936 remained set. It is now erased.
5938 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5939 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5941 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5942 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5943 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5944 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5945 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5946 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5947 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5948 appropriate error code.
5950 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5951 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5952 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5953 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5954 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5955 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5957 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5958 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5959 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5961 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5962 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5963 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5964 terminate the header.
5966 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5967 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5968 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5970 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5971 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5972 (4.30/29). In particular:
5974 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5977 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5978 to write a maildirsize file.
5980 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5981 the transport, the new value overrides.
5983 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5986 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5987 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5988 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5991 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5992 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5993 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5996 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5997 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5998 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6000 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6001 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6004 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6005 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6006 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6008 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6010 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6012 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6014 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6015 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6018 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6019 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6020 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6021 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6022 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6023 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6024 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6027 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6028 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6029 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6030 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6031 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6034 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6035 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6036 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6037 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6038 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6039 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6040 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6041 cached value only when the same options are set.
6043 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6045 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6046 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6047 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6048 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6049 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6051 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6052 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6053 it is clearly obsolete.
6055 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6058 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6059 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6060 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6063 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6064 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6065 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6066 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6067 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6069 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6070 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6071 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6072 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6074 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6076 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6078 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6079 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6082 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6083 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6084 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6085 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6086 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6087 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6090 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6091 with the -f command-line option.
6093 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6094 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6095 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6096 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6097 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6098 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6100 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6101 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6104 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6105 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6106 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6107 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6108 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6109 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6110 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6111 buffer is too small.
6113 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6114 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6116 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6117 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6118 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6119 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6120 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6121 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6122 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6123 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6124 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6126 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6127 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6128 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6130 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6131 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6134 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6135 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6136 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6137 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6138 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6140 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6141 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6142 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6143 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6146 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6148 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6150 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6151 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6153 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6154 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6155 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6157 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6158 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6159 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6160 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6161 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6163 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6164 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6165 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6166 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6167 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6168 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6169 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6171 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6172 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6173 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6174 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6175 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6176 the test of how many are available.
6178 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6179 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6180 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6181 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6182 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6183 new message is started.
6185 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6186 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6188 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6189 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6191 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6192 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6193 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6196 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6197 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6198 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6199 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6200 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6201 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6202 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6204 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6205 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6206 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6207 interpreted as octal.
6209 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6212 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6213 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6214 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6215 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6216 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6217 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6219 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6220 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6221 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6222 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6224 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6225 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6226 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6227 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6229 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6230 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6233 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6234 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6236 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6238 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6239 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6240 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6241 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6243 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6244 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6245 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6246 supplied", which is not helpful.
6248 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6249 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6250 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6252 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6253 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6254 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6255 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6256 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6257 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6258 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6259 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6261 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6262 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6263 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6264 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6265 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6267 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6268 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6269 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6270 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6271 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6272 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6274 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6275 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6276 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6278 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6280 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6281 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6282 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6285 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6287 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6288 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6289 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6290 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6291 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6292 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6293 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6294 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6296 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6297 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6298 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6299 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6300 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6302 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6305 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6306 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6307 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6308 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6309 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6310 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6311 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6312 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6313 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6319 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6320 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6321 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6323 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6326 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6327 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6328 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6330 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6331 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6332 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6333 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6334 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6335 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6337 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6338 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6339 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6340 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6341 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6342 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6343 the Exim test suite.
6345 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6346 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6347 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6348 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6350 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6351 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6352 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6353 specify it in this variable.
6355 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6356 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6357 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6358 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6360 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6361 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6362 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6363 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6365 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6366 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6367 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6368 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6369 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6371 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6373 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6376 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6377 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6378 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6379 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6380 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6382 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6383 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6385 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6386 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6387 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6388 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6389 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6391 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6392 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6394 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6395 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6396 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6398 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6399 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6401 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6402 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6404 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6405 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6406 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6408 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6409 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6411 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6412 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6413 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6414 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6416 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6418 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6419 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6420 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6421 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6423 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6425 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6426 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6428 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6430 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6431 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6432 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6433 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6434 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6435 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6437 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6439 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6440 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6443 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6445 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6446 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6448 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6449 550 Sender verify failed
6451 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6452 the final line of the response.
6454 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6455 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6456 all other user lookups.
6458 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6461 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6462 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6463 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6464 result into an int without checking.
6466 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6467 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6468 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6470 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6471 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6472 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6473 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6475 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6478 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6479 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6481 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6482 to the empty sender.
6484 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6485 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6486 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6487 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6488 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6489 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6490 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6493 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6494 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6495 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6496 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6499 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6500 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6502 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6505 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6506 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6508 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6510 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6511 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6514 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6515 as soon as it is encountered.
6517 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6519 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6522 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6523 recognizes a tab character.
6525 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6526 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6527 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6528 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6530 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6532 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6535 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6537 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6539 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6540 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6543 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6544 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6545 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6546 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6547 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6549 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6550 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6552 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6553 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6554 list (.included file names were always shown).
6556 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6557 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6558 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6561 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6562 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6564 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6566 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6568 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6570 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6571 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6572 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6573 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6574 failures to open the logs.
6576 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6577 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6578 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6579 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6580 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6581 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6582 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6588 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6589 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6590 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6593 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6594 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6595 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6597 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6598 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6599 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6601 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6602 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6603 causing some misleading effects.
6605 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6606 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6607 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6609 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6610 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6611 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6612 queue-runner function directly.
6618 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6621 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6622 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6623 was always written to the default place.
6625 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6626 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6627 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6629 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6631 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6633 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6634 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6635 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6637 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6638 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6641 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6642 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6643 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6645 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6646 command line option is disabled.
6648 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6649 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6651 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6653 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6655 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6656 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6658 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6660 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6661 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6662 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6663 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6664 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6665 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6667 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6668 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6671 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6672 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6674 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6675 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6677 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6678 received was valid base64.
6680 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6681 name of the variable that was being set.
6683 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6685 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6686 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6687 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6688 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6689 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6690 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6692 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6694 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6695 nor realm was specified.
6697 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6698 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6699 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6700 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6702 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6703 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6704 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6706 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6707 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6708 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6710 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6711 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6712 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6713 some systems use these upper case variants.
6715 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6716 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6717 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6718 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6720 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6722 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6723 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6725 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6726 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6729 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6731 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6732 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6733 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6734 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6736 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6739 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6740 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6741 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6743 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6744 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6746 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6747 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6748 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6749 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6751 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6752 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6753 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6755 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6757 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6758 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6759 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6760 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6763 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6764 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6765 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6767 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6769 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6770 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6772 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6773 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6775 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6776 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6777 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6778 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6779 when emails are that large.
6786 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6787 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6789 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6790 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6791 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6793 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6794 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6795 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6797 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6798 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6799 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6800 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6801 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6803 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6804 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6805 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6806 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6807 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6810 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6811 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6812 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6813 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6814 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6815 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6816 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6817 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6818 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6819 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6820 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6821 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6822 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6823 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6825 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6826 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6829 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6830 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6831 error should be diagnosed.
6833 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6834 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6835 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6836 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6837 appeared instead of "NULL".
6839 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6840 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6841 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6842 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6843 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6844 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6847 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6848 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6849 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6855 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6856 or receiver verification errors.
6858 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6861 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6862 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6863 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6864 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6866 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6867 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6868 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6869 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6870 shouldn't happen again.
6872 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6873 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6874 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6876 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6877 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6879 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6881 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6882 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6884 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6885 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6888 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6889 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6890 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6892 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6893 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6894 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6895 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6897 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6898 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6899 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6900 to define what should happen).
6902 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6903 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6904 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6906 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6908 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6910 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6911 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6913 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
6914 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6915 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6916 structure in all cases.
6918 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6919 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6920 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6921 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6923 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6924 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6927 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6928 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6930 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6931 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6933 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6934 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6935 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6937 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6938 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6939 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6941 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6942 the book and for uniformity.
6944 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6946 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6947 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6948 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6949 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6950 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6951 non-existent command as the problem.
6953 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6954 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6955 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6957 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6959 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6960 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6961 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6963 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6964 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6965 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6966 timestamps using strftime().
6968 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6969 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6971 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6972 transport-time rewrites.
6974 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6975 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6976 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6977 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6979 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6980 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6982 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6983 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6984 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6985 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6988 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6989 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6990 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6991 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6992 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6993 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6994 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6996 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6997 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6998 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6999 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7000 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7002 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7003 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7004 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7005 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7006 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7007 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7008 remaining text gets split now.
7010 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7011 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7012 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7013 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7015 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7016 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7017 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7018 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7021 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7022 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7023 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7024 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7025 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7026 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7027 passed through if needed.
7029 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7030 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7031 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7032 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7033 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7034 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7036 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7037 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7038 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7039 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7040 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7042 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7043 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7044 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7045 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7046 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7048 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7049 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7052 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7053 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7054 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7055 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7056 mayhem of various kinds.
7058 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7059 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7060 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7061 the right test for positive values.
7063 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7064 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7065 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7066 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7067 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7068 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7069 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7070 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7071 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7072 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7075 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7078 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7079 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7082 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7083 the existing equality matching.
7085 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7086 dealing with inode numbers.
7088 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7089 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7090 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7092 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7093 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7094 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7095 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7098 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7099 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7100 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7101 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7102 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7103 relay addresses has also been removed.
7105 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7107 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7108 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7109 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7111 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7112 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7113 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7114 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7115 processing applies to CR:
7117 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7118 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7120 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7121 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7122 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7123 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7125 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7126 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7127 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7129 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7130 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7131 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7132 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7133 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7134 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7137 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7140 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7141 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7142 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7143 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7146 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7148 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7150 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7152 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7153 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7154 not considered personal.
7156 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7158 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7160 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7162 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7163 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7164 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7165 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7166 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7167 header lines, and spool format errors.
7169 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7170 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7171 for more flexibility.
7173 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7174 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7175 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7177 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7180 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7181 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7182 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7183 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7184 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7185 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7186 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7187 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7188 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7190 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7191 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7192 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7193 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7194 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7195 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7196 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7198 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7199 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7200 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7202 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7203 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7204 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7205 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7206 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7207 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7208 instead of killing the process with assert().
7210 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7211 than Unicode encoding.
7213 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7214 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7215 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7216 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7218 77. Added process_log_path.
7220 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7221 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7223 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7224 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7226 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7227 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7228 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7230 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7231 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7232 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7233 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7234 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7237 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7238 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7241 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7242 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7243 they will be used during message reception.
7249 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.