1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
6 Exim version 4.93+fixes
7 -----------------------
8 This is not an official release. It is just a branch, collecting
9 proposed bugfixes. Depending on your environment the fixes may be
10 necessary to build and/or run Exim successfully.
12 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
14 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
15 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
16 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
22 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
23 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
25 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
26 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
29 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
32 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
34 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
36 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
37 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
39 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
40 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
41 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
42 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
43 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
46 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
47 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
49 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
50 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
53 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
54 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
56 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
57 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
58 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
59 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
62 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
63 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
64 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
66 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
69 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
70 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
72 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
73 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
74 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
75 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
78 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
79 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
80 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
81 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
84 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
85 shared (NFS) environment.
87 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
88 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
91 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
92 on some platforms for bit 31.
94 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
95 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
96 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
97 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
98 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
99 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
100 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
101 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
103 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
105 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
106 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
108 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
109 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
112 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
113 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
116 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
117 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
118 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
121 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
122 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
123 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
125 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
126 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
127 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
128 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
129 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
131 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
134 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
135 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
136 be requested on all coneections.
138 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
139 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
141 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
143 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
144 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
145 one for these; the option was ignored.
147 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
148 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
149 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
150 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
152 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
153 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
154 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
157 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
158 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
159 error ignored was made.
161 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
163 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
164 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
165 values, to catch one form of exploit.
167 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
168 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
169 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
171 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
172 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
175 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
176 them in our smtp response.
178 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
179 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
180 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
181 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
182 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
184 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
185 link count into consideration.
187 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
188 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
190 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
191 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
192 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
195 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
197 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
199 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
201 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
202 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
203 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
204 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
206 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
208 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
209 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
212 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
213 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
214 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
216 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
217 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
218 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
220 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
221 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
222 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
223 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
224 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
225 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
226 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
227 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
229 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
230 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
231 resulted in an indefinite loop.
233 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
234 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
235 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
241 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
242 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
244 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
245 non-signal-safe functions being used.
247 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
248 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
249 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
251 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
252 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
253 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
255 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
256 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
257 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
258 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
259 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
262 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
263 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
265 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
266 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
267 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
268 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
269 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
270 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
271 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
273 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
274 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
276 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
279 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
280 Previously this would segfault.
282 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
285 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
286 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
287 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
288 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
289 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
290 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
292 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
294 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
295 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
296 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
297 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
299 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
301 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
302 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
303 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
304 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
306 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
308 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
310 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
311 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
312 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
314 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
315 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
316 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
318 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
320 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
321 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
322 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
323 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
325 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
326 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
327 promised '?' replacement.
329 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
331 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
332 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
333 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
334 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
335 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
337 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
338 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
339 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
341 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
342 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
343 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
345 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
346 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
347 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
349 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
350 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
351 hope that is portable enough.
353 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
354 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
355 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
356 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
358 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
359 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
360 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
362 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
363 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
364 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
365 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
367 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
368 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
370 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
371 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
372 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
373 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
375 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
376 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
377 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
379 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
380 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
381 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
382 the previous G, M, k.
384 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
385 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
388 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
389 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
390 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
391 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
393 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
394 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
396 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
397 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
398 off past the nul-terimation.
400 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
401 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
402 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
403 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
404 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
406 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
408 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
409 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
410 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
413 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
414 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
416 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
417 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
418 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
420 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
421 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
422 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
424 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
425 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
431 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
432 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
433 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
434 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
435 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
436 be defined in redis_servers.
438 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
439 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
441 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
442 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
443 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
444 extant use locations.
446 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
447 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
449 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
450 Previously only the last row was returned.
452 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
453 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
454 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
455 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
458 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
459 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
460 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
461 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
462 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
463 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
464 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
465 Main pool for expansions.
466 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
467 active in the testsuite.
468 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
470 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
471 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
472 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
473 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
476 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
477 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
480 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
481 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
482 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
484 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
485 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
486 ClamAV interface method is removed.
488 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
489 rows affected is given instead).
491 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
492 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
494 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
495 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
496 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
497 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
498 for all multi-message initiating connections.
500 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
501 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
502 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
504 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
505 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
506 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
507 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
510 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
511 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
512 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
515 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
517 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
518 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
520 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
521 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
522 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
524 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
525 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
526 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
529 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
530 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
532 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
533 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
534 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
536 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
537 for the build is renamed.
539 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
540 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
541 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
543 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
544 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
545 result replacing the original.
547 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
548 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
549 and the resources needed to be freed.
551 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
553 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
556 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
557 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
558 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
559 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
561 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
562 length value. Previously this would segfault.
564 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
565 newer versions of the scanner.
567 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
568 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
569 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
570 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
571 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
572 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
573 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
575 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
576 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
577 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
578 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
579 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
580 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
581 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
582 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
583 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
584 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
586 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
587 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
589 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
591 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
592 allows proper process termination in container environments.
594 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
595 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
597 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
598 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
599 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
601 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
602 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
603 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
604 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
606 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
607 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
610 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
611 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
613 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
614 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
615 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
616 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
617 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
619 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
620 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
623 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
624 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
626 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
629 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
630 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
631 "bare" representation.
633 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
634 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
635 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
636 corrupted the output.
642 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
643 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
644 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
645 pairs of long lines into single ones.
647 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
648 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
650 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
651 This permits better logging.
653 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
654 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
655 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
656 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
657 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
658 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
660 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
661 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
664 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
665 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
666 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
668 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
669 than 255 are no longer allowed.
671 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
672 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
673 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
674 client, there is no benefit for these.
675 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
676 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
677 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
680 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
681 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
683 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
684 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
685 erroneously found still-pending ones.
687 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
688 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
690 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
691 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
692 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
693 signature and again for transmission.
695 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
696 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
697 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
699 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
700 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
701 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
702 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
703 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
704 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
705 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
707 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
708 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
709 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
710 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
712 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
713 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
714 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
715 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
716 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
717 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
720 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
721 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
722 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
723 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
726 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
727 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
728 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
729 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
732 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
733 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
736 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
737 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
738 banner-time rejection.
740 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
743 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
744 is the name of a transport.
747 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
749 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
750 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
752 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
753 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
754 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
757 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
758 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
759 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
760 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
762 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
763 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
764 initial verify call returned a defer.
766 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
767 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
769 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
770 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
772 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
773 if present. Previously it was ignored.
775 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
776 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
778 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
779 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
782 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
783 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
785 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
786 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
787 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
789 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
790 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
791 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
792 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
794 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
795 and confused the parent.
797 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
798 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
800 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
803 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
804 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
805 out-of-order delivery.
807 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
808 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
809 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
812 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
813 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
816 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
817 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
818 one run was done. Bug 2189.
820 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
821 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
822 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
823 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
824 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
825 message is still "Temporary local problem".
827 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
828 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
829 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
831 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
832 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
833 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
835 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
836 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
837 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
838 though a different problem.
844 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
845 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
847 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
849 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
850 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
852 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
853 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
855 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
856 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
857 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
858 before acknowledging the chunk.
860 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
861 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
862 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
864 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
865 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
866 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
869 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
870 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
871 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
873 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
874 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
876 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
877 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
878 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
879 body hash calculated value.
881 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
882 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
883 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
885 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
887 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
888 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
890 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
891 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
892 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
894 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
895 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
896 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
897 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
898 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
899 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
901 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
902 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
903 past that check, despite the cost.
905 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
906 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
907 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
909 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
910 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
911 TLS library to consume.
913 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
915 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
917 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
918 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
919 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
920 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
921 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
922 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
923 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
925 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
927 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
929 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
930 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
931 should be warning-free.
933 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
935 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
936 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
938 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
939 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
940 general solution here.
942 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
943 already-broken messages in the queue.
945 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
947 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
953 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
954 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
956 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
957 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
958 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
960 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
961 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
962 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
963 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
964 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
965 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
966 if one fails this test.
967 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
968 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
970 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
971 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
973 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
974 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
976 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
977 in rewrites and routers.
979 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
980 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
982 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
983 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
985 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
987 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
990 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
991 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
992 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
993 connection after a verify cache hit.
994 Do not update it with the verify result either.
996 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
997 when routing results in more than one destination address.
999 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1000 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1001 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1002 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1003 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1005 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1006 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1008 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1009 Previously they were not counted.
1011 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1012 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1013 that needed the lookup.
1015 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1016 distinguished as "(=".
1018 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1019 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1021 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1023 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1024 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1026 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1027 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1029 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1030 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1033 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1034 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1035 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1036 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1038 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1040 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1041 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1042 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1044 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1045 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1046 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1049 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1050 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1051 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1054 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1055 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1056 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1058 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1059 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1062 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1064 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1065 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1067 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1068 are not in the system include path.
1070 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1071 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1072 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1073 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1075 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1076 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1077 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1079 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1081 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1082 an incoming connection.
1084 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1087 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1088 fallback to "prime256v1".
1090 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1091 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1097 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1098 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1099 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1100 client dropping the TLS connection.
1102 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1103 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1105 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1106 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1107 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1108 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1111 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1112 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1113 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1114 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1115 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1116 check on the next write.
1118 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1119 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1120 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1121 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1122 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1124 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1125 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1127 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1128 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1129 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1131 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1132 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1133 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1134 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1136 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1137 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1139 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1140 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1142 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1143 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1144 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1147 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1149 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1151 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1153 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1154 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1156 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1157 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1159 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1161 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1162 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1164 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1166 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1167 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1169 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1171 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1172 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1173 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1174 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1175 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1176 they will retry in-clear.
1177 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1178 at installation time.
1180 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1181 with the $config_file variable.
1183 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1184 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1185 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1186 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1187 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1189 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1190 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1191 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1192 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1193 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1195 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1197 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1198 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1199 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1200 list order is no longer honoured.
1202 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1203 for DKIM processing.
1205 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1206 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1208 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1209 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1210 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1211 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1213 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1214 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1216 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1217 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1219 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1220 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1222 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1224 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1225 cached by the daemon.
1227 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1228 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1230 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1231 keys are given for lookup.
1233 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1234 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1235 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1236 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1238 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1239 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1240 server-side so match that on older versions.
1242 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1243 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1244 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1246 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1247 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1249 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1250 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1251 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1252 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1253 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1254 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1255 initial truncated version.
1257 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1259 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1261 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1262 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1264 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1266 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1268 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1269 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1272 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1273 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1276 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1277 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1279 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1280 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1283 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1284 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1285 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1287 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1288 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1289 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1290 extraction. Accept either.
1296 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1299 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1301 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1304 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1305 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1306 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1307 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1309 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1310 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1311 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1313 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1314 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1315 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1318 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1321 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1322 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1323 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1324 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1325 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1327 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1328 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1329 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1331 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1333 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1334 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1336 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1337 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1339 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1342 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1343 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1345 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1346 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1347 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1349 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1350 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1351 specify a port-range.
1353 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1354 timeout value per server.
1356 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1357 now have the list separator specified.
1359 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1362 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1365 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1367 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1368 rather than the verbs used.
1370 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1371 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1373 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1375 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1376 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1378 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1379 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1381 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1382 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1384 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1386 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1388 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1389 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1390 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1391 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1393 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1395 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1396 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1398 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1399 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1401 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1403 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1405 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1407 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1408 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1410 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1411 added for tls authenticator.
1413 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1419 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1420 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1421 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1422 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1423 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1424 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1425 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1427 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1428 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1429 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1430 function when detected.
1432 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1433 cause callback expansion.
1435 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1436 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1437 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1438 instead of bool when processing it.
1440 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1441 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1443 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1445 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1447 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1449 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1450 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1452 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1453 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1454 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1455 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1456 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1457 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1459 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1460 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1463 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1464 version 3.3.6 or later.
1466 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1467 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1468 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1469 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1470 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1471 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1474 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1475 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1477 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1478 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1479 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1482 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1483 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1484 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1486 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1487 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1489 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1490 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1493 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1495 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1496 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1498 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1499 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1502 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1504 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1507 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1508 output list separator was used.
1513 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1514 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1517 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1518 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1520 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1522 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1523 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1529 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1531 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1532 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1533 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1534 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1535 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1536 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1538 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1539 utilities have not been installed.
1541 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1542 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1544 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1545 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1547 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1548 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1549 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1550 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1552 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1554 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1555 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1557 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1560 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1562 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1563 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1564 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1566 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1567 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1568 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1569 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1570 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1571 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1573 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1575 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1576 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1578 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1581 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1583 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1585 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1586 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1588 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1589 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1591 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1593 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1595 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1596 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1598 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1599 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1600 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1602 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1603 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1604 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1607 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1609 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1610 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1613 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1614 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1617 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1618 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1620 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1621 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1623 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1625 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1626 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1627 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1629 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1630 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1632 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1633 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1636 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1637 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1638 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1640 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1642 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1643 Christian Aistleitner.
1645 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1647 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1648 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1650 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1651 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1653 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1654 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1656 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1657 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1659 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1660 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1662 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1663 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1664 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1666 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1668 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1669 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1672 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1674 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1675 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1682 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1684 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1685 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1687 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1690 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1691 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1694 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1696 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1697 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1698 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1699 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1700 using channel bindings instead).
1702 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1703 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1704 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1705 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1706 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1709 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1711 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1713 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1714 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1716 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1717 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1718 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1720 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1722 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1724 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1725 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1727 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1729 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1731 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1733 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1734 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1736 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1738 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1739 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1742 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1743 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1745 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1746 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1749 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1751 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1753 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1754 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1756 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1759 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1760 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1762 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1763 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1765 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1767 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1769 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1772 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1775 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1777 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1778 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1779 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1780 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1782 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1784 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1785 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1786 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1787 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1790 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1791 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1792 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1794 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1795 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1796 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1797 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1799 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1800 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1801 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1802 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1803 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1804 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1805 delivery, as in LMTP.
1807 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1808 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1810 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1812 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1816 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1817 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1818 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1819 username as equal to the username.
1821 This change corrects that bug.
1823 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1824 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1825 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1827 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1829 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1830 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1831 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1832 NULL dereference and crash.
1834 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1836 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1837 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1838 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1840 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1842 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1843 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1844 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1845 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1846 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1847 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1848 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1849 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1850 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1851 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1852 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1854 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1855 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1857 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1858 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1861 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1862 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1863 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1864 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1865 an empty string is now equivalent.
1867 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1868 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1869 not performing validation itself.
1871 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1872 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1874 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1877 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1879 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1880 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1881 other false fix of the same issue.
1882 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1885 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1886 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1888 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1889 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1890 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1892 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1893 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1894 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1896 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1898 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1900 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1901 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1903 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1906 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1907 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1908 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1909 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1910 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1912 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1913 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1915 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1916 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1919 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1920 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1921 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1922 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1924 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1926 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1927 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1928 from multiple comments on this bug.
1930 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1932 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1933 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1936 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1937 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1939 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1940 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1946 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1948 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1954 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1955 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1956 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1958 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1960 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1963 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1965 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1967 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1969 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1970 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1972 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1973 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1975 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1976 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1978 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1979 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1980 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1982 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1984 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1985 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1987 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1989 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
1991 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1992 non-compliant senders.
1993 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1995 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
1996 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
1997 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1999 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2000 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2001 in spool file corruption.
2003 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2004 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2005 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2008 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2009 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2010 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2012 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2013 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2015 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2017 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2019 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2021 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2022 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2023 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2025 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2026 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2027 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2028 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2030 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2031 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2033 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2034 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2035 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2036 resolver implementation change.
2038 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2039 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2041 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2043 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2045 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2046 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2048 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2049 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2051 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2052 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2054 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2055 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2056 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2057 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2058 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2060 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2062 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2063 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2064 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2066 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2068 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2069 read-only, out of scope).
2070 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2072 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2073 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2074 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2075 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2077 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2079 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2080 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2081 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2082 real issues in debug logging.
2084 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2085 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2087 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2088 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2089 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2091 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2092 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2093 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2096 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2097 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2099 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2100 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2101 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2102 needs to override this, it can.
2104 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2105 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2106 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2108 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2109 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2110 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2111 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2113 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2119 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2120 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2122 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2124 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2127 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2128 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2130 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2131 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2132 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2134 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2135 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2136 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2137 not safe for signals.
2139 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2140 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2141 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2142 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2145 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2147 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2148 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2149 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2150 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2151 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2153 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2154 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2155 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2156 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2157 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2158 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2160 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2161 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2162 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2163 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2165 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2166 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2167 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2168 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2170 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2171 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2172 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2173 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2174 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2175 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2176 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2177 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2178 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2180 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2181 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2182 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2183 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2185 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2186 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2187 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2188 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2189 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2190 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2191 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2192 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2193 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2194 details in the main documentation.
2196 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2198 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2200 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2201 repository when doing development or release builds.
2203 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2204 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2206 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2207 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2210 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2212 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2213 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2215 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2216 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2218 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2219 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2221 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2222 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2224 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2225 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2227 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2229 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2232 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2233 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2234 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2236 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2238 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2240 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2241 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2247 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2249 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2250 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2252 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2254 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2256 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2259 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2260 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2262 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2263 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2265 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2266 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2268 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2271 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2272 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2274 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2275 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2276 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2277 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2279 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2280 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2286 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2289 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2290 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2291 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2293 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2294 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2296 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2297 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2298 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2300 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2301 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2303 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2304 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2306 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2307 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2309 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2310 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2312 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2313 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2315 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2318 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2319 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2321 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2322 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2324 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2325 SQL string expansion failure details.
2326 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2328 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2329 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2331 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2332 extern declarations in function scope.
2333 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2335 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2336 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2337 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2340 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2341 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2343 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2344 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2346 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2347 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2349 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2350 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2352 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2353 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2356 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2358 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2360 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2361 Patch by Simon Arlott
2363 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2364 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2370 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2371 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2373 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2374 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2376 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2378 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2379 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2380 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2382 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2383 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2384 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2386 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2387 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2388 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2389 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2391 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2392 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2393 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2394 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2396 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2397 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2398 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2401 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2404 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2405 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2406 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2407 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2408 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2414 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2415 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2416 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2418 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2419 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2421 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2423 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2425 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2427 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2429 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2431 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2432 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2433 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2434 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2436 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2437 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2438 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2439 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2440 more caution in buffer sizes.
2442 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2444 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2446 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2448 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2450 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2452 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2454 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2456 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2457 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2458 ignore trailing whitespace.
2460 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2462 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2465 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2466 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2468 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2469 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2470 Notification from John Horne.
2472 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2475 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2476 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2479 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2482 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2483 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2484 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2486 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2487 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2488 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2491 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2492 option (effectively making it always true).
2494 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2495 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2497 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2498 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2500 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2501 run-time user, instead of root.
2503 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2504 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2506 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2507 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2510 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2511 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2512 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2514 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2516 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2522 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2523 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2526 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2527 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2530 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2531 Patch from Alain Williams
2533 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2535 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2536 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2538 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2539 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2541 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2543 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2545 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2546 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2548 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2550 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2552 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2553 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2554 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2556 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2557 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2559 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2560 Patch by Simon Arlott
2562 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2563 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2569 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2571 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2573 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2575 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2577 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2583 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2584 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2586 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2587 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2590 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2591 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2592 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2594 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2595 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2597 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2598 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2599 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2600 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2602 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2603 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2604 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2606 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2608 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2610 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2611 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2613 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2615 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2616 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2617 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2618 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2620 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2621 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2623 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2625 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2627 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2628 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2630 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2631 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2633 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2634 that they are available at delivery time.
2636 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2638 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2639 incoming_port log selectors.
2641 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2642 setting expands to an empty string.
2644 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2645 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2647 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2648 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2650 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2651 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2653 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2654 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2656 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2657 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2659 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2660 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2662 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2664 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2665 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2667 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2668 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2670 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2672 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2673 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2675 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2677 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2679 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2682 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2683 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2685 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2686 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2688 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2689 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2691 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2692 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2694 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2695 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2697 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2698 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2700 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2701 plus update to original patch.
2703 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2705 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2706 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2708 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2710 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2712 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2714 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2716 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2717 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2719 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2720 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2722 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2723 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2725 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2726 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2728 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2730 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2732 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2734 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2740 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2741 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2742 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2744 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2745 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2746 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2747 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2748 build errors in sieve.c.
2750 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2751 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2752 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2754 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2756 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2758 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2760 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2766 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2768 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2769 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2770 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2771 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2772 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2773 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2774 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2775 for iplsearch lookups.
2777 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2778 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2779 previously such lookups could never work.
2781 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2782 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2783 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2785 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2788 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2789 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2790 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2791 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2792 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2793 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2795 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2796 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2798 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2799 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2800 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2801 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2802 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2803 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2805 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2808 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2810 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2811 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2814 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2815 by clients under certain conditions.
2817 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2818 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2820 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2822 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2823 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2825 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2827 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2829 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2831 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2832 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2834 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2836 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2837 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2839 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2841 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2843 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2844 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2845 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2846 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2848 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2849 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2850 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2852 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2853 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2855 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2857 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2859 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2861 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2862 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2863 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2869 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2870 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2873 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2874 issue a MAIL command.
2876 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2878 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2880 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2881 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2882 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2883 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2884 item. This has been fixed.
2886 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2887 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2889 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2890 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2892 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2893 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2894 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2896 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2898 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2899 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2900 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2901 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2902 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2904 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2905 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2906 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2908 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2909 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2910 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2911 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2913 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2915 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2917 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2918 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2919 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2920 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2921 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2923 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2925 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2926 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2927 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2930 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2932 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2934 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2936 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2938 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2940 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2941 no_callout_flush is set.
2943 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2944 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2945 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2948 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2950 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2951 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2952 other ACL rejections are.
2954 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2955 with slight modification.
2957 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2958 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2960 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2961 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2964 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2965 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2967 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2969 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2970 expansion side effects.
2972 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2973 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2974 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2977 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2978 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2979 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2981 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2982 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2983 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2984 were accidentally chopped off.
2986 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2987 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2988 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2989 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2990 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2991 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2992 pipelining has not been advertised.
2994 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2996 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2997 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2998 This has been fixed.
3000 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3001 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3002 reported on Solaris.
3004 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3005 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3006 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3007 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3008 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3009 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3010 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3012 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3015 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3017 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3019 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3020 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3021 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3022 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3023 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3024 criteria to be more general.
3026 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3027 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3028 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3029 host_all_ignored option.
3031 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3032 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3033 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3034 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3035 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3036 is what is supposed to happen).
3038 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3039 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3040 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3041 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3042 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3045 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3046 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3047 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3048 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3049 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3050 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3053 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3055 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3056 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3058 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3059 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3061 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3063 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3065 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3066 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3067 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3068 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3069 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3070 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3071 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3072 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3073 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3074 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3075 least in a lot of common cases.
3077 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3078 advertised in response to EHLO.
3084 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3085 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3087 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3088 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3090 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3091 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3092 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3094 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3095 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3096 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3097 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3098 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3104 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3105 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3108 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3109 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3110 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3112 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3113 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3114 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3115 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3116 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3117 rather than extend the field.
3123 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3124 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3125 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3126 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3129 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3130 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3131 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3133 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3134 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3135 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3137 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3138 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3139 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3142 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3143 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3144 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3145 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3146 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3147 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3148 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3149 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3150 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3151 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3152 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3154 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3157 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3158 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3159 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3160 ignores EPIPE as well.
3162 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3163 (quoted-printable decoding).
3165 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3166 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3168 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3170 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3172 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3174 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3175 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3177 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3180 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3181 miscellaneous code fixes
3183 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3186 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3187 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3188 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3189 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3190 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3191 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3192 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3193 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3195 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3196 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3197 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3198 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3200 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3201 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3202 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3203 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3204 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3205 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3206 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3207 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3208 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3210 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3213 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3214 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3215 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3216 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3217 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3218 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3219 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3220 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3222 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3223 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3226 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3227 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3228 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3229 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3230 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3231 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3232 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3233 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3234 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3235 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3236 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3237 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3238 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3240 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3241 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3242 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3243 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3244 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3245 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3246 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3248 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3249 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3250 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3251 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3252 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3253 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3254 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3255 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3256 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3257 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3259 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3260 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3261 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3262 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3263 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3265 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3266 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3267 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3268 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3269 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3270 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3271 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3273 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3274 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3275 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3276 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3277 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3278 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3281 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3282 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3283 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3286 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3287 if any retry times were supplied.
3289 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3290 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3291 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3293 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3295 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3297 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3298 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3299 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3300 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3301 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3302 before) are ignored.
3304 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3305 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3307 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3308 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3309 committing the later change.]
3311 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3312 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3313 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3314 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3315 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3316 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3317 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3318 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3319 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3321 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3322 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3323 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3324 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3325 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3326 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3327 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3328 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3329 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3331 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3332 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3333 hammering the server.
3335 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3336 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3338 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3340 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3341 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3342 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3344 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3345 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3346 one case where this was not true.
3348 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3349 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3350 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3351 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3354 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3355 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3356 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3357 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3358 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3359 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3360 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3361 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3362 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3365 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3366 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3367 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3368 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3370 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3371 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3373 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3374 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3375 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3377 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3379 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3381 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3383 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3384 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3385 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3386 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3388 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3389 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3391 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3392 be meaningful with "accept".
3394 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3395 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3397 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3398 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3399 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3401 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3402 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3403 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3404 there is data to show.
3405 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3407 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3408 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3409 as well as the number of messages.
3411 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3412 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3413 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3415 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3416 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3417 have a flag are now skipped.
3419 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3420 Added the -emptyok flag.
3422 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3423 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3425 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3426 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3427 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3429 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3432 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3433 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3435 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3437 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3438 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3440 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3442 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3443 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3444 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3445 contravention of the specifications.
3447 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3448 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3449 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3451 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3452 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3453 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3455 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3457 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3458 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3459 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3460 some point in the past.
3462 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3463 transport during callout processing was broken.
3465 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3466 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3468 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3469 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3471 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3472 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3474 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3480 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3481 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3483 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3484 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3485 there is data to show.
3486 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3488 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3489 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3491 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3492 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3494 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3495 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3497 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3498 submissions from trusted users.
3500 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3501 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3503 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3504 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3505 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3506 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3507 there is now a framework to start from.
3509 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3510 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3511 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3513 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3515 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3517 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3519 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3520 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3521 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3523 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3526 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3527 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3528 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3530 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3531 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3532 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3535 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3536 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3537 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3538 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3539 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3541 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3542 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3544 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3546 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3547 operations in malware.c.
3549 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3552 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3553 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3554 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3557 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3558 statements to "add_header".
3560 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3561 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3563 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3564 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3567 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3571 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3572 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3573 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3576 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3577 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3579 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3580 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3582 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3583 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3584 any possible encoding problems.
3586 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3587 but not after initializing Perl.
3589 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3590 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3591 apparently, which is not desirable.
3593 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3596 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3599 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3601 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3602 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3603 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3604 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3606 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3607 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3608 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3610 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3611 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3612 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3615 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3616 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3617 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3618 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3619 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3625 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3626 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3628 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3631 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3632 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3633 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3634 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3635 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3636 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3637 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3638 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3641 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3643 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3644 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3645 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3647 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3648 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3649 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3652 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3653 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3655 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3656 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3657 option (which defaults to 0600).
3659 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3661 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3662 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3663 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3664 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3665 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3666 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3667 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3669 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3675 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3676 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3677 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3678 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3679 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3680 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3683 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3684 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3686 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3688 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3689 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3690 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3691 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3692 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3695 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3696 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3698 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3699 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3700 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3701 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3702 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3704 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3705 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3706 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3707 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3709 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3710 be the same on different OS.
3712 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3715 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3716 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3718 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3721 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3722 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3723 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3724 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3725 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3726 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3729 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3730 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3731 when Exim was called.
3733 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3734 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3736 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3737 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3738 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3739 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3741 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3742 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3743 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3744 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3747 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3748 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3749 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3751 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3752 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3753 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3755 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3758 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3759 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3760 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3761 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3762 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3763 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3764 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3765 values from the SRV records were lost.
3767 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3768 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3769 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3771 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3772 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3773 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3775 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3776 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3777 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3778 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3779 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3780 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3781 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3782 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3783 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3784 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3786 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3787 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3788 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3790 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3791 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3793 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3794 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3795 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3796 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3799 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3800 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3801 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3803 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3804 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3805 PH/23 above applies.
3807 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3808 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3809 (for which there is an explicit test).
3811 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3813 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3814 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3815 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3816 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3817 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3819 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3820 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3821 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3822 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3824 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3825 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3826 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3828 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3830 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3832 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3833 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3834 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3836 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3837 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3838 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3839 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3840 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3842 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3843 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3844 the message gets confusing).
3846 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3847 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3848 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3849 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3851 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3852 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3853 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3854 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3857 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3858 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3859 the different processes.
3861 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3863 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3865 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3866 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3868 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3869 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3871 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3872 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3873 messages matching specified criteria.
3875 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3877 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3878 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3880 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3881 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3882 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3883 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3884 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3885 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3886 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3887 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3888 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3889 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3891 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3892 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3893 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3895 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3897 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3898 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3899 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3900 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3901 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3902 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3903 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3906 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3907 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3909 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3911 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3913 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3915 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3916 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3917 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3918 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3919 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3920 size of the count of files.
3922 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3924 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3927 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3928 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3929 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3930 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3932 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3933 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3934 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3936 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3937 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3938 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3939 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3940 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3942 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3943 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3945 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3946 will now be deprecated.
3948 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3950 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3951 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3952 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3954 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3955 with very large, slow to parse queues
3957 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3959 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3961 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3962 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3963 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3966 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3967 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3968 Sieve code now uses this.
3970 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3971 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3973 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3974 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3976 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3978 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3979 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3980 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3981 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3982 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3984 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3985 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3986 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3987 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3989 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3991 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3993 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3994 is preferred over IPv4.
3996 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3997 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3998 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3999 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4000 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4001 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4002 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4004 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4005 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4006 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4008 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4010 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4011 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4012 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4013 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4014 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4015 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4016 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4017 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4018 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4019 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4020 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4022 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4023 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4024 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4030 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4032 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4033 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4035 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4036 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4037 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4039 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4041 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4044 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4047 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4048 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4049 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4052 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4053 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4055 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4056 inside the third argument.
4058 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4059 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4062 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4063 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4065 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4066 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4068 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4070 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4071 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4074 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4076 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4077 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4078 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4079 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4080 identical. For example:
4082 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4084 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4085 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4086 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4088 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4089 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4090 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4091 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4093 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4094 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4095 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4098 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4100 o fixes some comments
4101 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4102 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4103 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4104 and documents the missing references header update
4108 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4109 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4112 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4113 Electronic Mail") by including:
4115 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4117 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4118 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4119 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4120 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4121 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4123 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4125 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4127 The auto-replied keyword:
4129 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4130 message by an automatic process,
4132 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4134 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4135 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4137 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4138 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4141 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4142 to the default Received: header definition.
4144 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4146 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4147 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4148 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4150 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4151 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4152 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4154 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4155 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4156 and treats the condition as false.
4158 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4160 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4161 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4162 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4163 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4164 not changing the active code.
4166 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4167 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4169 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4170 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4172 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4175 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4176 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4177 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4178 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4179 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4180 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4181 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4182 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4183 the text comparison.
4185 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4186 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4187 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4188 The same fix has been applied.
4194 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4195 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4198 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4199 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4201 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4203 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4204 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4205 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4206 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4207 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4209 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4210 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4211 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4212 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4215 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4223 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4224 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4226 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4228 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4230 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4231 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4232 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4234 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4235 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4236 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4238 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4239 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4242 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4243 ${stat: expansion item.
4245 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4246 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4248 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4249 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4252 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4254 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4257 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4258 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4260 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4262 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4263 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4264 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4265 the end of the subprocess.
4267 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4268 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4269 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4270 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4271 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4273 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4275 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4277 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4278 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4280 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4282 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4284 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4285 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4288 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4290 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4291 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4292 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4294 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4295 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4297 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4298 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4300 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4301 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4303 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4304 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4306 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4307 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4308 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4309 contributed by a Radius user.
4311 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4312 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4314 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4315 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4317 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4320 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4321 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4324 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4325 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4326 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4327 header lines when this was not necessary.
4329 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4331 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4332 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4333 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4336 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4339 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4340 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4341 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4342 return code was incorrect.
4344 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4346 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4348 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4350 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4352 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4353 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4354 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4355 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4356 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4359 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4361 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4362 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4363 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4364 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4365 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4366 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4367 which is clearly wrong.
4369 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4371 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4372 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4373 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4376 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4377 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4379 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4381 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4382 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4384 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4385 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4387 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4388 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4390 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4391 recipients, not senders.
4393 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4394 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4396 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4398 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4400 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4401 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4402 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4403 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4405 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4407 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4408 clock is set back in time.
4410 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4411 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4413 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4414 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4416 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4417 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4420 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4421 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4424 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4427 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4429 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4430 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4431 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4433 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4434 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4435 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4436 helo verification defer as a failure.
4438 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4439 actual error message.
4445 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4447 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4448 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4449 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4450 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4452 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4454 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4455 can still be requested.
4457 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4458 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4459 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4460 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4462 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4463 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4464 circumstances, but probably never did.
4466 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4467 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4468 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4471 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4473 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4474 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4476 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4478 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4480 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4481 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4482 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4483 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4484 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4485 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4487 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4488 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4489 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4490 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4491 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4492 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4494 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4495 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4497 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4498 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4500 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4501 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4503 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4505 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4507 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4509 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4511 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4513 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4515 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4517 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4518 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4519 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4521 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4522 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4523 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4524 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4526 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4527 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4528 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4530 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4531 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4532 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4533 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4535 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4536 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4539 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4540 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4541 should work with maildirs and everything.
4543 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4544 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4546 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4549 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4550 function for BDB 4.3.
4552 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4554 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4555 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4558 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4559 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4560 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4561 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4562 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4563 formatting function string_vformat().
4565 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4566 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4567 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4568 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4569 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4570 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4571 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4572 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4574 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4575 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4578 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4579 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4581 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4582 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4583 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4584 test. It is now used for both.
4586 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4587 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4588 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4589 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4590 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4591 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4593 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4594 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4595 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4598 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4599 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4600 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4602 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4603 experimental DomainKeys support:
4605 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4606 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4607 the control was given.
4609 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4611 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4613 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4615 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4616 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4617 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4620 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4621 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4622 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4623 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4624 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4625 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4628 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4629 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4630 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4631 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4632 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4633 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4635 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4636 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4637 do -d+all out of habit.
4639 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4640 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4643 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4644 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4645 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4646 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4647 record types that Exim uses.
4649 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4650 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4651 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4652 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4653 non-existent file that was broken.
4655 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4656 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4658 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4659 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4660 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4662 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4664 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4665 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4666 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4667 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4668 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4671 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4672 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4673 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4674 at a slight CPU cost.
4676 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4677 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4679 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4682 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4684 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4685 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4691 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4692 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4694 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4696 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4698 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4699 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4701 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4702 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4703 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4704 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4705 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4706 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4709 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4710 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4711 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4712 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4715 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4716 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4717 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4718 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4719 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4720 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4721 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4724 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4725 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4727 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4728 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4729 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4730 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4731 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4732 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4734 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4735 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4736 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4737 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4739 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4742 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4743 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4745 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4746 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4747 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4748 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4751 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4753 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4754 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4756 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4757 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4758 to what was transported.)
4760 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4762 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4763 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4764 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4765 spamd_address settings.
4767 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4768 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4769 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4770 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4771 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4773 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4775 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4776 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4777 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4778 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4779 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4781 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4782 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4784 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4785 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4786 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4787 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4788 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4789 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4790 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4793 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4794 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4795 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4796 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4797 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4798 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4799 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4802 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4804 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4805 driver and ACL definitions.
4807 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4808 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4810 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4811 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4812 understands it better than I do:
4814 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4815 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4817 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4818 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4819 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4820 => three warnings about OTP not working
4821 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4823 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4824 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4825 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4826 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4828 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4829 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4831 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4832 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4833 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4835 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4836 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4839 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4840 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4843 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4844 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4845 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4847 warn !verify = sender
4848 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4850 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4851 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4853 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4855 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4856 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4858 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4859 nomenclature these days.)
4861 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4862 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4864 PH/30 In these circumstances:
4865 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4866 . First host does not offer TLS;
4867 . First host accepts first address;
4868 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4869 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4870 . Second host accepts second address.
4871 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4872 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4875 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4876 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4877 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4878 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4879 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4881 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4882 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4884 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4885 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4887 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4888 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4889 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4891 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4892 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4895 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4897 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4898 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4899 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4900 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4901 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4902 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4903 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4905 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4906 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4907 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4908 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4909 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4911 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4912 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4915 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4916 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4917 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4918 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4919 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4920 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4922 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4924 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4925 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4926 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4927 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4928 printable escape sequences.
4930 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4931 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4934 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4935 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4938 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4939 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4940 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4941 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4942 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4944 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4945 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4946 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4948 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4950 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4951 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4954 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4955 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4956 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4957 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4958 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4959 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4960 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4961 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4962 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4965 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4966 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4967 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4968 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4972 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4973 ----------------------------------------
4975 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4976 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4977 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4978 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4979 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4980 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4983 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
4984 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4985 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4986 historical information.
4992 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4994 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
4995 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
4997 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4998 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5001 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5002 filter fails to execute.
5004 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5005 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5006 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5007 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5008 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5010 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5012 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5013 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5014 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5015 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5017 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5018 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5019 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5020 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5021 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5023 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5025 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5027 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5028 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5029 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5030 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5032 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5033 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5034 sender verification.
5036 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5037 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5039 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5041 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5044 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5045 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5047 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5048 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5050 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5051 information about exactly what failed.
5053 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5055 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5056 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5057 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5059 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5060 It is now set to "smtps".
5062 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5063 ignore_target_hosts.
5065 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5066 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5067 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5068 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5071 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5072 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5073 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5075 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5076 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5077 wake it up if nothing else does.
5079 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5080 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5081 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5084 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5085 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5087 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5089 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5090 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5091 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5092 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5093 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5094 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5095 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5096 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5098 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5099 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5100 than one IP address.
5102 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5103 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5104 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5105 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5107 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5108 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5109 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5110 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5111 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5114 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5115 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5116 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5117 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5119 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5120 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5123 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5124 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5125 $sender_host_address.
5127 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5128 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5129 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5130 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5131 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5134 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5136 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5137 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5139 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5140 just the host names, not the priorities.
5142 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5143 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5144 controlled by a keyword.
5146 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5147 multiple records are returned.
5149 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5150 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5153 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5155 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5156 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5158 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5159 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5160 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5162 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5164 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5166 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5168 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5169 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5170 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5171 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5172 because the tests only now provoked it.
5174 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5175 (this can affect the format of dates).
5177 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5178 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5179 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5180 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5182 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5184 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5185 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5186 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5187 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5189 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5190 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5191 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5193 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5196 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5197 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5198 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5199 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5200 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5201 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5204 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5205 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5206 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5209 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5210 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5211 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5213 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5214 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5215 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5216 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5217 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5218 so I produce this patch..."
5220 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5221 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5224 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5225 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5226 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5227 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5230 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5232 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5233 long debug lines gets shown.
5235 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5236 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5238 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5240 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5241 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5242 of $primary_hostname.
5244 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5245 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5246 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5247 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5248 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5249 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5250 by change 4.50/55 above.
5252 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5253 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5254 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5255 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5256 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5257 running as the user.
5260 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5261 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5262 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5265 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5266 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5268 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5269 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5270 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5271 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5272 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5274 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5275 This has been fixed.
5277 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5278 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5279 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5280 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5283 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5285 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5286 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5287 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5288 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5290 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5291 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5293 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5294 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5295 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5297 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5298 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5299 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5302 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5303 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5304 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5306 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5307 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5308 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5309 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5311 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5312 during host lookups.
5314 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5315 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5317 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5319 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5320 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5321 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5322 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5323 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5326 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5327 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5329 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5330 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5331 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5333 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5335 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5336 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5337 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5338 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5339 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5340 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5343 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5344 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5345 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5346 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5347 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5349 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5352 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5354 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5355 "vacation" handling.
5357 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5358 OS variants using glibc.
5360 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5363 ----------------------------------------------------
5364 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5365 ----------------------------------------------------
5371 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5372 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5375 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5376 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5379 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5380 filter fails to execute.
5382 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5383 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5384 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5385 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5386 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5388 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5389 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5390 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5391 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5393 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5394 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5395 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5396 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5397 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5399 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5401 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5402 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5403 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5404 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5406 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5407 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5408 sender verification.
5410 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5411 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5413 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5414 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5416 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5417 ignore_target_hosts.
5419 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5420 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5421 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5422 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5425 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5426 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5427 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5429 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5430 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5431 wake it up if nothing else does.
5433 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5434 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5435 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5438 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5439 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5441 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5443 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5444 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5447 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5448 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5451 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5452 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5453 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5454 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5455 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5458 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5459 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5462 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5463 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5464 $sender_host_address.
5466 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5468 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5469 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5470 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5472 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5475 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5476 (this can affect the format of dates).
5478 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5479 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5480 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5481 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5483 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5484 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5485 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5487 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5488 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5489 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5490 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5492 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5493 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5494 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5496 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5499 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5500 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5501 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5502 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5503 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5504 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5507 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5508 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5509 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5510 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5513 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5514 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5515 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5516 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5517 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5518 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5519 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5521 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5522 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5523 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5524 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5525 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5526 running as the user.
5529 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5530 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5531 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5534 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5535 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5536 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5537 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5538 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5540 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5541 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5542 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5543 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5546 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5547 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5548 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5549 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5550 because the tests only now provoked it.
5556 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5557 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5558 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5559 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5560 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5561 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5562 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5564 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5565 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5568 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5570 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5572 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5573 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5576 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5577 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5578 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5579 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5580 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5582 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5583 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5585 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5587 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5589 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5592 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5593 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5595 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5596 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5597 affecting debugging statements).
5599 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5601 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5602 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5603 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5604 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5605 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5606 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5607 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5608 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5609 after the received time, and all would be well.
5611 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5612 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5613 condition in an expansion string.
5615 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5617 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5618 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5619 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5620 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5621 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5622 job under whatever limits there are.
5624 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5626 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5629 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5630 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5631 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5632 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5635 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5636 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5637 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5638 binary data in such strings.
5640 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5642 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5643 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5644 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5645 failure, which is pointless.
5647 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5649 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5651 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5652 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5653 Sender: header lines.
5655 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5656 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5657 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5659 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5660 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5661 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5662 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5663 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5666 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5667 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5668 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5669 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5670 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5672 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5673 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5674 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5677 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5678 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5680 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5681 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5683 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5685 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5687 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5689 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5692 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5694 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5696 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5697 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5698 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5699 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5701 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5702 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5708 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5709 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5710 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5712 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5713 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5714 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5715 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5716 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5717 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5719 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5720 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5721 verification failure".
5723 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5724 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5725 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5726 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5728 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5729 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5730 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5731 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5732 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5733 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5734 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5735 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5736 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5737 treated as a timeout.
5739 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5740 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5741 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5742 not set for Exim filters).
5744 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5745 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5746 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5748 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5750 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5751 try to make them clearer.
5753 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5754 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5756 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5758 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5760 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5761 only the Cygwin environment.
5763 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5764 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5765 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5766 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5767 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5769 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5770 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5771 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5772 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5773 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5774 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5775 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5777 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5778 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5780 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5782 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5783 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5784 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5786 To: susanne@some.where
5788 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5789 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5790 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5791 of addresses in From: header lines).
5793 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5794 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5795 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5797 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5798 treated as non-personal.
5800 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5801 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5803 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5805 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5807 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5808 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5809 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5811 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5812 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5814 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5815 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5816 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5817 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5818 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5819 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5821 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5822 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5823 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5824 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5825 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5826 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5827 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5828 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5830 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5832 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5833 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5835 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5836 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5837 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5839 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5840 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5842 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5843 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5844 rather than long int.
5846 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5848 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5854 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5855 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5856 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5857 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5858 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5859 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5865 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5866 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5868 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5869 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5870 socklen_t is defined.
5872 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5875 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5878 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5879 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5880 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5881 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5882 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5884 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5885 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5886 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5887 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5889 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5890 of flapping under certain conditions.
5892 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5893 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5894 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5896 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5898 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5900 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5901 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5902 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5903 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5905 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5906 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5907 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5908 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5909 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5910 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5911 preserved with the message after it was received.
5913 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5914 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5915 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5916 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5917 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5918 test suite worked just fine.
5920 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5921 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5922 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5924 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5925 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5928 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5929 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5930 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5931 does not fully solve it.
5933 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5934 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5935 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5936 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5937 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5939 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5940 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5941 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5943 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5944 string, for example:
5946 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5948 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5949 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5950 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5951 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5952 the routers could not see them.
5954 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5955 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5957 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5958 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5961 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5962 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5963 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5964 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5965 that needed quoting.
5967 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5968 was not being matched caselessly.
5970 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5973 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5974 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5975 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5976 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5977 when use_sender is false.
5979 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5981 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5983 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5985 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5986 the configuration file.
5988 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5989 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5991 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5993 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5994 bytes in the message body.
5996 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5997 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6000 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6002 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6004 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6005 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6006 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6007 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6014 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6015 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6017 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6018 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6019 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6020 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6021 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6023 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6024 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6026 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6027 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6028 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6030 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6031 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6032 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6034 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6037 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6038 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6039 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6040 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6041 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6042 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6043 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6049 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6050 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6051 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6052 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6053 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6054 default (and expected) setting.
6056 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6057 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6058 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6059 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6061 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6062 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6064 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6067 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6068 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6069 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6070 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6071 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6072 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6074 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6075 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6076 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6078 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6079 part (NOT match_host).
6081 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6083 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6084 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6085 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6086 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6087 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6088 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6089 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6090 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6091 the same named file.
6093 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6094 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6097 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6098 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6099 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6100 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6103 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6104 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6105 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6107 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6109 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6111 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6113 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6114 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6116 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6117 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6118 before starting the TLS session.
6120 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6122 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6123 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6125 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6126 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6127 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6128 colon in the middle).
6134 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6135 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6136 multiple configurations are in use.
6138 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6139 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6140 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6141 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6142 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6143 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6145 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6146 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6148 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6149 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6150 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6152 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6153 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6156 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6157 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6159 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6161 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6162 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6164 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6172 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6173 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6174 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6175 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6176 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6178 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6181 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6182 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6183 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6184 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6185 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6186 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6188 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6189 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6190 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6191 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6192 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6193 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6194 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6197 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6198 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6199 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6200 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6201 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6203 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6205 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6206 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6207 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6209 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6211 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6212 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6213 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6216 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6217 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6219 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6220 Three changes have been made:
6222 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6223 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6224 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6225 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6226 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6228 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6231 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6232 the modified behaviour.
6238 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6241 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6242 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6244 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6245 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6246 try to track down a specific problem.
6248 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6249 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6250 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6252 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6255 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6256 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6257 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6258 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6259 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6260 some earlier ones do not.
6262 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6264 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6265 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6266 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6267 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6268 address literals are enabled, of course).
6270 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6272 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6273 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6274 by a command such as
6278 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6280 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6282 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6283 remained set. It is now erased.
6285 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6286 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6288 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6289 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6290 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6291 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6292 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6293 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6294 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6295 appropriate error code.
6297 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6298 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6299 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6300 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6301 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6302 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6304 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6305 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6306 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6308 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6309 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6310 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6311 terminate the header.
6313 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6314 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6315 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6317 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6318 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6319 (4.30/29). In particular:
6321 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6324 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6325 to write a maildirsize file.
6327 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6328 the transport, the new value overrides.
6330 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6333 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6334 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6335 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6338 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6339 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6340 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6343 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6344 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6345 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6347 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6348 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6351 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6352 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6353 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6355 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6357 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6359 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6361 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6362 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6365 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6366 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6367 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6368 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6369 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6370 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6371 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6374 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6375 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6376 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6377 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6378 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6381 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6382 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6383 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6384 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6385 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6386 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6387 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6388 cached value only when the same options are set.
6390 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6392 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6393 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6394 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6395 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6396 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6398 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6399 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6400 it is clearly obsolete.
6402 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6405 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6406 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6407 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6410 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6411 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6412 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6413 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6414 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6416 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6417 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6418 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6419 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6421 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6423 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6425 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6426 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6429 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6430 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6431 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6432 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6433 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6434 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6437 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6438 with the -f command-line option.
6440 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6441 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6442 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6443 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6444 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6445 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6447 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6448 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6451 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6452 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6453 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6454 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6455 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6456 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6457 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6458 buffer is too small.
6460 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6461 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6463 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6464 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6465 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6466 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6467 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6468 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6469 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6470 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6471 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6473 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6474 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6475 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6477 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6478 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6481 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6482 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6483 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6484 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6485 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6487 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6488 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6489 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6490 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6493 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6495 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6497 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6498 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6500 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6501 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6502 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6504 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6505 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6506 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6507 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6508 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6510 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6511 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6512 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6513 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6514 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6515 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6516 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6518 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6519 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6520 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6521 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6522 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6523 the test of how many are available.
6525 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6526 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6527 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6528 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6529 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6530 new message is started.
6532 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6533 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6535 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6536 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6538 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6539 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6540 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6543 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6544 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6545 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6546 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6547 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6548 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6549 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6551 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6552 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6553 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6554 interpreted as octal.
6556 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6559 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6560 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6561 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6562 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6563 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6564 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6566 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6567 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6568 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6569 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6571 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6572 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6573 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6574 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6576 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6577 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6580 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6581 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6583 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6585 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6586 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6587 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6588 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6590 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6591 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6592 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6593 supplied", which is not helpful.
6595 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6596 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6597 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6599 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6600 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6601 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6602 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6603 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6604 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6605 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6606 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6608 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6609 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6610 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6611 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6612 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6614 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6615 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6616 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6617 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6618 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6619 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6621 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6622 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6623 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6625 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6627 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6628 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6629 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6632 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6634 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6635 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6636 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6637 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6638 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6639 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6640 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6641 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6643 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6644 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6645 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6646 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6647 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6649 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6652 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6653 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6654 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6655 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6656 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6657 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6658 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6659 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6660 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6666 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6667 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6668 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6670 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6673 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6674 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6675 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6677 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6678 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6679 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6680 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6681 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6682 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6684 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6685 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6686 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6687 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6688 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6689 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6690 the Exim test suite.
6692 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6693 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6694 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6695 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6697 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6698 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6699 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6700 specify it in this variable.
6702 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6703 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6704 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6705 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6707 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6708 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6709 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6710 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6712 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6713 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6714 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6715 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6716 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6718 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6720 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6723 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6724 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6725 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6726 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6727 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6729 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6730 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6732 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6733 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6734 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6735 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6736 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6738 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6739 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6741 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6742 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6743 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6745 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6746 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6748 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6749 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6751 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6752 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6753 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6755 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6756 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6758 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6759 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6760 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6761 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6763 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6765 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6766 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6767 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6768 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6770 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6772 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6773 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6775 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6777 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6778 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6779 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6780 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6781 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6782 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6784 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6786 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6787 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6790 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6792 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6793 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6795 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6796 550 Sender verify failed
6798 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6799 the final line of the response.
6801 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6802 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6803 all other user lookups.
6805 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6808 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6809 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6810 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6811 result into an int without checking.
6813 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6814 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6815 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6817 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6818 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6819 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6820 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6822 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6825 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6826 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6828 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6829 to the empty sender.
6831 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6832 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6833 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6834 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6835 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6836 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6837 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6840 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6841 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6842 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6843 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6846 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6847 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6849 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6852 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6853 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6855 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6857 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6858 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6861 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6862 as soon as it is encountered.
6864 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6866 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6869 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6870 recognizes a tab character.
6872 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6873 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6874 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6875 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6877 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6879 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6882 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6884 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6886 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6887 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6890 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6891 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6892 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6893 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6894 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6896 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6897 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6899 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6900 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6901 list (.included file names were always shown).
6903 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6904 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6905 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6908 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6909 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6911 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6913 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6915 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6917 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6918 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6919 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6920 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6921 failures to open the logs.
6923 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6924 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6925 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6926 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6927 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6928 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6929 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6935 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6936 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6937 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6940 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6941 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6942 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6944 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6945 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6946 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6948 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6949 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6950 causing some misleading effects.
6952 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6953 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6954 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6956 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6957 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6958 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6959 queue-runner function directly.
6965 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6968 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6969 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6970 was always written to the default place.
6972 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6973 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6974 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6976 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6978 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6980 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6981 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6982 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6984 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6985 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6988 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6989 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6990 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6992 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6993 command line option is disabled.
6995 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6996 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6998 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7000 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7002 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7003 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7005 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7007 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7008 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7009 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7010 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7011 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7012 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7014 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7015 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7018 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7019 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7021 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7022 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7024 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7025 received was valid base64.
7027 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7028 name of the variable that was being set.
7030 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7032 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7033 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7034 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7035 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7036 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7037 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7039 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7041 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7042 nor realm was specified.
7044 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7045 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7046 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7047 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7049 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7050 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7051 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7053 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7054 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7055 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7057 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7058 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7059 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7060 some systems use these upper case variants.
7062 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7063 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7064 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7065 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7067 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7069 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7070 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7072 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7073 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7076 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7078 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7079 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7080 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7081 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7083 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7086 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7087 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7088 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7090 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7091 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7093 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7094 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7095 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7096 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7098 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7099 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7100 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7102 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7104 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7105 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7106 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7107 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7110 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7111 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7112 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7114 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7116 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7117 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7119 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7120 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7122 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7123 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7124 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7125 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7126 when emails are that large.
7133 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7134 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7136 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7137 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7138 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7140 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7141 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7142 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7144 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7145 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7146 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7147 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7148 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7150 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7151 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7152 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7153 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7154 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7157 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7158 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7159 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7160 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7161 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7162 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7163 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7164 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7165 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7166 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7167 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7168 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7169 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7170 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7172 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7173 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7176 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7177 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7178 error should be diagnosed.
7180 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7181 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7182 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7183 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7184 appeared instead of "NULL".
7186 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7187 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7188 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7189 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7190 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7191 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7194 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7195 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7196 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7202 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7203 or receiver verification errors.
7205 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7208 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7209 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7210 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7211 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7213 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7214 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7215 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7216 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7217 shouldn't happen again.
7219 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7220 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7221 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7223 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7224 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7226 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7228 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7229 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7231 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7232 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7235 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7236 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7237 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7239 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7240 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7241 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7242 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7244 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7245 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7246 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7247 to define what should happen).
7249 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7250 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7251 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7253 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7255 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7257 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7258 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7260 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7261 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7262 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7263 structure in all cases.
7265 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7266 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7267 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7268 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7270 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7271 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7274 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7275 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7277 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7278 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7280 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7281 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7282 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7284 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7285 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7286 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7288 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7289 the book and for uniformity.
7291 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7293 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7294 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7295 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7296 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7297 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7298 non-existent command as the problem.
7300 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7301 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7302 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7304 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7306 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7307 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7308 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7310 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7311 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7312 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7313 timestamps using strftime().
7315 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7316 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7318 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7319 transport-time rewrites.
7321 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7322 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7323 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7324 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7326 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7327 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7329 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7330 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7331 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7332 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7335 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7336 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7337 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7338 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7339 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7340 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7341 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7343 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7344 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7345 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7346 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7347 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7349 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7350 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7351 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7352 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7353 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7354 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7355 remaining text gets split now.
7357 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7358 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7359 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7360 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7362 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7363 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7364 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7365 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7368 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7369 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7370 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7371 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7372 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7373 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7374 passed through if needed.
7376 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7377 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7378 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7379 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7380 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7381 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7383 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7384 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7385 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7386 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7387 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7389 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7390 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7391 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7392 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7393 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7395 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7396 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7399 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7400 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7401 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7402 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7403 mayhem of various kinds.
7405 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7406 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7407 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7408 the right test for positive values.
7410 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7411 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7412 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7413 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7414 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7415 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7416 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7417 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7418 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7419 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7422 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7425 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7426 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7429 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7430 the existing equality matching.
7432 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7433 dealing with inode numbers.
7435 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7436 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7437 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7439 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7440 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7441 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7442 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7445 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7446 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7447 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7448 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7449 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7450 relay addresses has also been removed.
7452 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7454 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7455 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7456 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7458 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7459 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7460 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7461 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7462 processing applies to CR:
7464 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7465 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7467 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7468 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7469 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7470 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7472 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7473 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7474 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7476 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7477 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7478 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7479 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7480 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7481 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7484 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7487 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7488 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7489 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7490 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7493 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7495 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7497 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7499 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7500 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7501 not considered personal.
7503 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7505 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7507 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7509 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7510 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7511 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7512 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7513 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7514 header lines, and spool format errors.
7516 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7517 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7518 for more flexibility.
7520 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7521 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7522 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7524 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7527 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7528 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7529 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7530 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7531 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7532 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7533 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7534 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7535 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7537 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7538 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7539 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7540 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7541 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7542 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7543 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7545 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7546 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7547 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7549 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7550 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7551 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7552 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7553 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7554 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7555 instead of killing the process with assert().
7557 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7558 than Unicode encoding.
7560 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7561 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7562 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7563 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7565 77. Added process_log_path.
7567 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7568 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7570 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7571 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7573 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7574 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7575 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7577 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7578 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7579 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7580 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7581 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7584 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7585 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7588 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7589 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7590 they will be used during message reception.
7596 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.