1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
10 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
11 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
13 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
14 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
15 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
16 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
18 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
19 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
20 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
21 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
22 so could be handling tainted values.
24 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
25 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
26 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
28 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
29 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
30 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
33 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
34 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
35 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
36 to align better with RFC 6125.
38 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
39 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
40 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
41 by adding a relase action in that path.
43 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
44 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
45 dynamically-created buffers.
47 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
48 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
49 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
50 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
52 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
53 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
54 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
55 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
57 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
58 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
59 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
61 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
62 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
63 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
64 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
66 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
67 excluded, not matching the documentation.
69 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
70 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
72 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
73 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
74 this was a coding error.
76 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
77 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
78 spent suspended, ignoring the Posix definition. Previously we assumed
79 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
80 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
81 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
82 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
84 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
85 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
86 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignement. Discovery and fix by
87 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
89 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
90 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
91 dynamicaly created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
92 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
93 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
95 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
96 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
99 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
100 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
101 domain-parking registrar.
103 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
104 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
105 after removing the newline.
107 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
108 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
109 option set, which was previously used.
111 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
114 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
115 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
116 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
117 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
119 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
120 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
121 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
122 exim.dev.20160529.3).
124 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
125 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
126 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
128 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
129 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
130 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
133 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
134 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
135 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
137 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
138 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
139 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
140 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
143 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
144 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
145 there, handle PRX and TFO.
147 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
148 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
149 in a panic-log trigerrable by sending a message with a long address in
150 a header. Fix by increaing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
151 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
153 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
154 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
155 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
156 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
159 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
160 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
162 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
165 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
166 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
167 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
168 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
169 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
171 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
173 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
174 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
175 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
176 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
177 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
178 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
180 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
181 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
183 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
184 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
185 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentidcation.
187 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
188 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
191 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
192 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
193 of a new variable: $auth4.
195 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
196 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
197 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
198 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
199 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
201 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
202 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
203 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
204 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
206 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
207 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
208 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
210 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
211 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
212 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
213 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
216 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
217 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
218 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
221 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
222 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
223 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
224 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
226 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
227 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
229 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
230 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
231 looked as if if might be one.
233 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
234 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
235 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
236 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
237 messages can show the proxy information.
239 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
240 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
241 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
242 "queue_time_exclusive".
244 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
245 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover epxansions
246 rerulting in acl names and inline ACL content.
248 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
249 making it unusable in complex expressions.
251 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
252 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
255 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
257 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
259 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
261 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
262 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
263 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
264 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
270 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
271 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
272 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
274 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
276 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
277 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
280 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
281 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
282 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
284 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
286 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
288 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
289 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
290 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
292 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
293 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
294 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
296 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
297 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
299 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
300 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
303 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
304 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
305 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
306 should both provide the file and set the option.
307 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
309 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
310 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
312 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
313 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
314 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
315 Authentication-Results: header.
317 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
318 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
319 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
320 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
322 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
323 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
324 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
325 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
326 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
327 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
328 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
330 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
331 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
332 copies while it is still usable.
334 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
335 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
336 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
338 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
339 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
341 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
342 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
343 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
344 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
346 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
347 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
348 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
351 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
352 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
353 - the pipe transport command
354 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
355 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
357 - paths used by single-key lookups
358 Previously this was permitted.
360 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
361 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
362 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
363 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
365 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
366 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
367 support larger malloc requests.
369 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
370 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
371 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
372 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
374 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
375 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
376 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
377 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
380 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
381 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
382 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
383 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
384 data being length-specified.
386 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
387 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
388 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
389 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
391 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
392 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
393 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
394 not being properly tracked.
396 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
397 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
398 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
399 minute could be seen.
401 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
402 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
403 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
405 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
406 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
408 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
409 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
412 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
414 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
415 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
417 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
418 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
419 filesystem as sufficient validation.
421 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
422 argument is supplied.
424 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
425 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
426 access under Exim's current working directory.
428 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
429 Previously no event was raised.
431 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
432 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
433 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
436 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
437 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
438 the size of the signature hash.
440 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
441 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
443 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
444 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
445 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
446 dropped between messages.
448 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
449 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
450 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
451 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
453 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
454 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
455 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
456 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
457 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
458 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
459 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
460 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
461 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
463 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
464 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
465 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
467 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
468 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
475 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
476 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
478 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
479 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
482 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
485 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
487 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
489 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
490 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
492 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
493 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
494 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
495 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
496 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
497 suitably configured).
499 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
500 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
502 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
503 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
506 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
507 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
509 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
510 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
511 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
512 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
515 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
516 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
517 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
519 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
522 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
523 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
525 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
526 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
527 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
528 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
531 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
532 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
533 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
534 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
537 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
538 shared (NFS) environment.
540 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
541 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
544 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
545 on some platforms for bit 31.
547 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
548 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
549 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
550 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
551 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
552 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
553 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
554 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
556 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
558 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
559 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
561 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
562 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
565 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
566 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
569 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
570 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
571 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
574 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
575 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
576 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
578 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
579 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
580 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
581 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
582 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
584 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
587 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
588 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
589 be requested on all coneections.
591 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
592 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
594 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
596 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
597 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
598 one for these; the option was ignored.
600 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
601 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
602 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
603 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
605 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
606 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
607 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
610 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
611 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
612 error ignored was made.
614 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
616 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
617 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
618 values, to catch one form of exploit.
620 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
621 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
622 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
624 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
625 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
628 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
629 them in our smtp response.
631 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
632 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
633 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
634 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
635 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
637 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
638 link count into consideration.
640 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
641 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
643 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
644 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
645 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
648 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
650 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
652 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
654 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
655 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
656 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
657 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
659 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
661 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
662 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
665 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
666 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
667 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
669 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
670 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
671 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
673 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
674 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
675 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
676 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
677 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
678 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
679 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
680 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
682 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
683 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
684 resulted in an indefinite loop.
686 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
687 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
688 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
694 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
695 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
697 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
698 non-signal-safe functions being used.
700 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
701 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
702 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
704 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
705 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
706 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
708 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
709 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
710 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
711 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
712 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
715 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
716 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
718 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
719 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
720 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
721 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
722 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
723 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
724 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
726 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
727 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
729 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
732 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
733 Previously this would segfault.
735 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
738 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
739 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
740 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
741 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
742 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
743 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
745 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
747 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
748 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
749 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
750 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
752 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
754 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
755 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
756 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
757 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
759 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
761 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
763 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
764 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
765 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
767 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
768 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
769 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
771 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
773 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
774 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
775 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
776 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
778 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
779 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
780 promised '?' replacement.
782 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
784 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
785 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
786 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
787 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
788 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
790 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
791 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
792 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
794 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
795 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
796 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
798 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
799 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
800 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
802 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
803 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
804 hope that is portable enough.
806 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
807 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
808 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
809 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
811 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
812 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
813 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
815 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
816 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
817 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
818 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
820 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
821 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
823 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
824 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
825 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
826 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
828 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
829 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
830 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
832 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
833 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
834 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
835 the previous G, M, k.
837 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
838 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
841 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
842 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
843 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
844 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
846 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
847 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
849 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
850 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
851 off past the nul-terimation.
853 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
854 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
855 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
856 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
857 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
859 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
861 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
862 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
863 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
866 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
867 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
869 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
870 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
871 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
873 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
874 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
875 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
877 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
878 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
884 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
885 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
886 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
887 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
888 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
889 be defined in redis_servers.
891 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
892 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
894 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
895 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
896 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
897 extant use locations.
899 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
900 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
902 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
903 Previously only the last row was returned.
905 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
906 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
907 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
908 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
911 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
912 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
913 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
914 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
915 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
916 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
917 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
918 Main pool for expansions.
919 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
920 active in the testsuite.
921 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
923 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
924 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
925 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
926 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
929 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
930 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
933 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
934 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
935 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
937 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
938 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
939 ClamAV interface method is removed.
941 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
942 rows affected is given instead).
944 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
945 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
947 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
948 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
949 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
950 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
951 for all multi-message initiating connections.
953 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
954 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
955 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
957 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
958 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
959 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
960 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
963 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
964 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
965 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
968 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
970 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
971 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
973 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
974 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
975 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
977 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
978 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
979 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
982 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
983 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
985 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
986 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
987 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
989 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
990 for the build is renamed.
992 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
993 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
994 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
996 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
997 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
998 result replacing the original.
1000 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1001 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1002 and the resources needed to be freed.
1004 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1006 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1009 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1010 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1011 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1012 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1014 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1015 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1017 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1018 newer versions of the scanner.
1020 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1021 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1022 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1023 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1024 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1025 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1026 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1028 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1029 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1030 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1031 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1032 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1033 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1034 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1035 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1036 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1037 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1039 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1040 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1042 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1044 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1045 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1047 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1048 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1050 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1051 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1052 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1054 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1055 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1056 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1057 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1059 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1060 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1063 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1064 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1066 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1067 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1068 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1069 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1070 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1072 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1073 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1076 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1077 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1079 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1082 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1083 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1084 "bare" representation.
1086 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1087 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1088 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1089 corrupted the output.
1095 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1096 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1097 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1098 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1100 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1101 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1103 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1104 This permits better logging.
1106 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1107 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1108 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1109 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1110 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1111 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1113 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1114 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1117 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1118 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1119 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1121 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1122 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1124 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1125 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1126 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1127 client, there is no benefit for these.
1128 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1129 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1130 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1133 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1134 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1136 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1137 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1138 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1140 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1141 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1143 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1144 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1145 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1146 signature and again for transmission.
1148 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1149 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1150 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1152 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1153 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1154 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1155 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1156 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1157 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1158 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1160 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1161 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1162 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1163 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1165 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1166 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1167 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1168 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1169 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1170 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1173 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1174 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1175 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1176 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1179 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1180 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1181 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1182 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1185 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1186 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1189 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1190 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1191 banner-time rejection.
1193 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1196 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1197 is the name of a transport.
1200 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1202 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1203 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1205 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1206 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1207 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1210 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1211 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1212 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1213 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1215 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1216 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1217 initial verify call returned a defer.
1219 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1220 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1222 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1223 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1225 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1226 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1228 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1229 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1231 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1232 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1235 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1236 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1238 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1239 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1240 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1242 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1243 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1244 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1245 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1247 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1248 and confused the parent.
1250 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1251 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1253 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1256 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1257 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1258 out-of-order delivery.
1260 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1261 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1262 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1265 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1266 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1269 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1270 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1271 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1273 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1274 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1275 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1276 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1277 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1278 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1280 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1281 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1282 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1284 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1285 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1286 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1288 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1289 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1290 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1291 though a different problem.
1297 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1298 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1300 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1302 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1303 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1305 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1306 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1308 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1309 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1310 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1311 before acknowledging the chunk.
1313 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1314 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1315 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1317 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1318 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1319 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1322 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1323 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1324 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1326 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1327 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1329 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1330 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1331 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1332 body hash calculated value.
1334 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1335 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1336 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1338 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1340 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1341 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1343 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1344 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1345 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1347 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1348 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1349 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1350 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1351 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1352 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1354 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1355 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1356 past that check, despite the cost.
1358 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1359 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1360 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1362 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1363 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1364 TLS library to consume.
1366 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1368 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1370 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1371 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1372 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1373 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1374 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1375 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1376 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1378 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1380 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1382 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1383 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1384 should be warning-free.
1386 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1388 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1389 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1391 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1392 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1393 general solution here.
1395 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1396 already-broken messages in the queue.
1398 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1400 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1406 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1407 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1409 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1410 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1411 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1413 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1414 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1415 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1416 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1417 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1418 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1419 if one fails this test.
1420 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1421 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1423 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1424 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1426 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1427 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1429 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1430 in rewrites and routers.
1432 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1433 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1435 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1436 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1438 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1440 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1443 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1444 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1445 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1446 connection after a verify cache hit.
1447 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1449 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1450 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1452 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1453 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1454 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1455 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1456 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1458 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1459 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1461 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1462 Previously they were not counted.
1464 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1465 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1466 that needed the lookup.
1468 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1469 distinguished as "(=".
1471 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1472 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1474 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1476 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1477 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1479 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1480 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1482 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1483 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1486 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1487 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1488 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1489 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1491 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1493 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1494 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1495 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1497 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1498 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1499 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1502 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1503 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1504 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1507 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1508 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1509 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1511 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1512 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1515 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1517 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1518 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1520 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1521 are not in the system include path.
1523 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1524 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1525 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1526 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1528 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1529 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1530 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1532 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1534 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1535 an incoming connection.
1537 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1540 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1541 fallback to "prime256v1".
1543 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1544 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1550 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1551 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1552 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1553 client dropping the TLS connection.
1555 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1556 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1558 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1559 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1560 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1561 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1564 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1565 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1566 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1567 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1568 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1569 check on the next write.
1571 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1572 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1573 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1574 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1575 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1577 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1578 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1580 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1581 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1582 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1584 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1585 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1586 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1587 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1589 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1590 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1592 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1593 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1595 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1596 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1597 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1600 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1602 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1604 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1606 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1607 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1609 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1610 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1612 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1614 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1615 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1617 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1619 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1620 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1622 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1624 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1625 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1626 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1627 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1628 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1629 they will retry in-clear.
1630 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1631 at installation time.
1633 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1634 with the $config_file variable.
1636 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1637 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1638 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1639 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1640 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1642 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1643 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1644 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1645 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1646 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1648 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1650 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1651 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1652 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1653 list order is no longer honoured.
1655 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1656 for DKIM processing.
1658 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1659 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1661 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1662 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1663 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1664 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1666 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1667 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1669 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1670 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1672 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1673 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1675 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1677 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1678 cached by the daemon.
1680 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1681 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1683 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1684 keys are given for lookup.
1686 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1687 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1688 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1689 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1691 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1692 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1693 server-side so match that on older versions.
1695 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1696 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1697 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1699 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1700 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1702 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1703 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1704 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1705 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1706 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1707 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1708 initial truncated version.
1710 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1712 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1714 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1715 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1717 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1719 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1721 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1722 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1725 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1726 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1729 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1730 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1732 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1733 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1736 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1737 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1738 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1740 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1741 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1742 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1743 extraction. Accept either.
1749 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1752 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1754 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1757 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1758 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1759 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1760 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1762 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1763 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1764 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1766 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1767 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1768 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1771 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1774 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1775 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1776 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1777 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1778 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1780 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1781 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1782 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1784 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1786 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1787 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1789 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1790 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1792 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1795 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1796 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1798 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1799 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1800 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1802 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1803 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1804 specify a port-range.
1806 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1807 timeout value per server.
1809 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1810 now have the list separator specified.
1812 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1815 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1818 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1820 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1821 rather than the verbs used.
1823 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1824 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1826 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1828 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1829 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1831 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1832 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1834 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1835 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1837 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1839 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1841 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1842 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1843 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1844 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1846 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1848 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1849 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1851 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1852 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1854 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1856 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1858 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1860 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1861 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1863 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1864 added for tls authenticator.
1866 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1872 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1873 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1874 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1875 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1876 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1877 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1878 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1880 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1881 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1882 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1883 function when detected.
1885 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1886 cause callback expansion.
1888 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1889 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1890 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1891 instead of bool when processing it.
1893 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1894 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1896 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1898 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1900 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1902 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1903 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1905 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1906 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1907 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1908 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1909 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1910 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1912 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1913 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1916 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1917 version 3.3.6 or later.
1919 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1920 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1921 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1922 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1923 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1924 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1927 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1928 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1930 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1931 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1932 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1935 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1936 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1937 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1939 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1940 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1942 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1943 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1946 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1948 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1949 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1951 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1952 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1955 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1957 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1960 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1961 output list separator was used.
1966 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1967 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1970 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1971 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1973 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1975 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1976 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1982 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1984 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1985 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1986 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1987 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1988 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1989 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1991 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1992 utilities have not been installed.
1994 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1995 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1997 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1998 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2000 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2001 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2002 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2003 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2005 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2007 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2008 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2010 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2013 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2015 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2016 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2017 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2019 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2020 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2021 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2022 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2023 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2024 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2026 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2028 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2029 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2031 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2034 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2036 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2038 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2039 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2041 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2042 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2044 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2046 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2048 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2049 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2051 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2052 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2053 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2055 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2056 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2057 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2060 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2062 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2063 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2066 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2067 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2070 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2071 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2073 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2074 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2076 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2078 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2079 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2080 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2082 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2083 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2085 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2086 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2089 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2090 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2091 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2093 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2095 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2096 Christian Aistleitner.
2098 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2100 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2101 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2103 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2104 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2106 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2107 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2109 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2110 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2112 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2113 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2115 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2116 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2117 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2119 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2121 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2122 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2125 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2127 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2128 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2135 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2137 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2138 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2140 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2143 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2144 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2147 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2149 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2150 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2151 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2152 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2153 using channel bindings instead).
2155 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2156 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2157 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2158 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2159 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2162 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2164 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2166 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2167 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2169 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2170 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2171 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2173 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2175 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2177 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2178 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2180 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2182 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2184 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2186 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2187 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2189 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2191 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2192 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2195 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2196 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2198 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2199 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2202 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2204 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2206 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2207 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2209 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2212 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2213 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2215 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2216 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2218 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2220 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2222 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2225 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2228 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2230 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2231 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2232 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2233 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2235 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2237 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2238 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2239 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2240 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2243 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2244 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2245 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2247 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2248 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2249 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2250 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2252 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2253 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2254 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2255 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2256 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2257 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2258 delivery, as in LMTP.
2260 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2261 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2263 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2265 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2269 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2270 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2271 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2272 username as equal to the username.
2274 This change corrects that bug.
2276 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2277 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2278 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2280 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2282 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2283 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2284 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2285 NULL dereference and crash.
2287 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2289 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2290 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2291 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2293 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2295 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2296 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2297 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2298 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2299 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2300 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2301 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2302 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2303 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2304 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2305 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2307 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2308 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2310 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2311 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2314 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2315 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2316 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2317 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2318 an empty string is now equivalent.
2320 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2321 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2322 not performing validation itself.
2324 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2325 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2327 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2330 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2332 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2333 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2334 other false fix of the same issue.
2335 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2338 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2339 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2341 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2342 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2343 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2345 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2346 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2347 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2349 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2351 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2353 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2354 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2356 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2359 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2360 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2361 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2362 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2363 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2365 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2366 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2368 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2369 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2372 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2373 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2374 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2375 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2377 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2379 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2380 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2381 from multiple comments on this bug.
2383 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2385 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2386 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2389 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2390 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2392 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2393 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2399 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2401 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2407 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2408 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2409 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2411 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2413 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2416 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2418 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2420 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2422 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2423 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2425 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2426 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2428 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2429 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2431 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2432 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2433 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2435 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2437 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2438 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2440 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2442 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2444 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2445 non-compliant senders.
2446 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2448 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2449 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2450 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2452 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2453 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2454 in spool file corruption.
2456 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2457 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2458 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2461 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2462 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2463 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2465 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2466 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2468 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2470 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2472 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2474 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2475 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2476 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2478 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2479 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2480 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2481 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2483 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2484 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2486 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2487 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2488 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2489 resolver implementation change.
2491 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2492 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2494 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2496 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2498 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2499 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2501 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2502 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2504 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2505 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2507 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2508 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2509 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2510 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2511 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2513 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2515 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2516 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2517 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2519 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2521 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2522 read-only, out of scope).
2523 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2525 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2526 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2527 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2528 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2530 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2532 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2533 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2534 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2535 real issues in debug logging.
2537 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2538 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2540 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2541 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2542 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2544 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2545 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2546 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2549 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2550 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2552 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2553 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2554 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2555 needs to override this, it can.
2557 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2558 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2559 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2561 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2562 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2563 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2564 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2566 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2572 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2573 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2575 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2577 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2580 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2581 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2583 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2584 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2585 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2587 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2588 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2589 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2590 not safe for signals.
2592 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2593 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2594 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2595 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2598 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2600 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2601 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2602 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2603 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2604 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2606 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2607 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2608 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2609 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2610 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2611 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2613 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2614 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2615 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2616 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2618 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2619 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2620 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2621 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2623 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2624 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2625 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2626 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2627 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2628 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2629 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2630 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2631 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2633 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2634 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2635 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2636 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2638 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2639 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2640 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2641 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2642 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2643 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2644 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2645 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2646 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2647 details in the main documentation.
2649 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2651 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2653 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2654 repository when doing development or release builds.
2656 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2657 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2659 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2660 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2663 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2665 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2666 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2668 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2669 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2671 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2672 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2674 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2675 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2677 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2678 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2680 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2682 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2685 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2686 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2687 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2689 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2691 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2693 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2694 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2700 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2702 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2703 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2705 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2707 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2709 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2712 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2713 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2715 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2716 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2718 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2719 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2721 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2724 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2725 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2727 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2728 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2729 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2730 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2732 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2733 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2739 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2742 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2743 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2744 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2746 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2747 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2749 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2750 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2751 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2753 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2754 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2756 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2757 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2759 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2760 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2762 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2763 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2765 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2766 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2768 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2771 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2772 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2774 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2775 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2777 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2778 SQL string expansion failure details.
2779 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2781 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2782 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2784 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2785 extern declarations in function scope.
2786 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2788 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2789 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2790 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2793 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2794 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2796 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2797 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2799 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2800 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2802 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2803 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2805 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2806 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2809 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2811 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2813 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2814 Patch by Simon Arlott
2816 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2817 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2823 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2824 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2826 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2827 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2829 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2831 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2832 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2833 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2835 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2836 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2837 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2839 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2840 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2841 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2842 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2844 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2845 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2846 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2847 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2849 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2850 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2851 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2854 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2857 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2858 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2859 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2860 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2861 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2867 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2868 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2869 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2871 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2872 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2874 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2876 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2878 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2880 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2882 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2884 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2885 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2886 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2887 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2889 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2890 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2891 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2892 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2893 more caution in buffer sizes.
2895 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2897 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2899 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2901 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2903 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2905 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2907 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2909 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2910 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2911 ignore trailing whitespace.
2913 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2915 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2918 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2919 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2921 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2922 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2923 Notification from John Horne.
2925 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2928 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2929 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2932 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2935 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2936 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2937 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2939 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2940 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2941 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2944 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2945 option (effectively making it always true).
2947 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2948 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2950 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2951 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2953 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2954 run-time user, instead of root.
2956 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2957 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2959 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2960 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2963 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2964 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2965 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2967 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2969 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2975 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2976 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2979 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2980 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2983 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2984 Patch from Alain Williams
2986 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2988 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2989 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2991 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2992 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2994 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2996 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2998 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2999 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3001 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3003 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3005 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3006 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3007 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3009 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3010 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3012 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3013 Patch by Simon Arlott
3015 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3016 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3022 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3024 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3026 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3028 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3030 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3036 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3037 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3039 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3040 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3043 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3044 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3045 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3047 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3048 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3050 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3051 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3052 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3053 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3055 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3056 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3057 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3059 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3061 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3063 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3064 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3066 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3068 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3069 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3070 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3071 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3073 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3074 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3076 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3078 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3080 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3081 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3083 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3084 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3086 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3087 that they are available at delivery time.
3089 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3091 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3092 incoming_port log selectors.
3094 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3095 setting expands to an empty string.
3097 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3098 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3100 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3101 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3103 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3104 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3106 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3107 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3109 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3110 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3112 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3113 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3115 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3117 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3118 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3120 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3121 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3123 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3125 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3126 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3128 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3130 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3132 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3135 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3136 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3138 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3139 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3141 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3142 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3144 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3145 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3147 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3148 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3150 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3151 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3153 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3154 plus update to original patch.
3156 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3158 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3159 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3161 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3163 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3165 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3167 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3169 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3170 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3172 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3173 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3175 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3176 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3178 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3179 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3181 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3183 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3185 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3187 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3193 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3194 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3195 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3197 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3198 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3199 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3200 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3201 build errors in sieve.c.
3203 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3204 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3205 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3207 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3209 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3211 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3213 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3219 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3221 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3222 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3223 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3224 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3225 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3226 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3227 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3228 for iplsearch lookups.
3230 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3231 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3232 previously such lookups could never work.
3234 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3235 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3236 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3238 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3241 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3242 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3243 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3244 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3245 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3246 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3248 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3249 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3251 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3252 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3253 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3254 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3255 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3256 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3258 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3261 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3263 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3264 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3267 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3268 by clients under certain conditions.
3270 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3271 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3273 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3275 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3276 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3278 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3280 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3282 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3284 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3285 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3287 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3289 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3290 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3292 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3294 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3296 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3297 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3298 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3299 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3301 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3302 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3303 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3305 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3306 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3308 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3310 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3312 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3314 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3315 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3316 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3322 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3323 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3326 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3327 issue a MAIL command.
3329 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3331 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3333 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3334 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3335 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3336 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3337 item. This has been fixed.
3339 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3340 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3342 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3343 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3345 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3346 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3347 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3349 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3351 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3352 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3353 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3354 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3355 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3357 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3358 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3359 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3361 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3362 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3363 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3364 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3366 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3368 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3370 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3371 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3372 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3373 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3374 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3376 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3378 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3379 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3380 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3383 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3385 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3387 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3389 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3391 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3393 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3394 no_callout_flush is set.
3396 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3397 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3398 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3401 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3403 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3404 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3405 other ACL rejections are.
3407 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3408 with slight modification.
3410 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3411 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3413 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3414 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3417 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3418 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3420 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3422 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3423 expansion side effects.
3425 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3426 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3427 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3430 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3431 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3432 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3434 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3435 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3436 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3437 were accidentally chopped off.
3439 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3440 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3441 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3442 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3443 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3444 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3445 pipelining has not been advertised.
3447 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3449 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3450 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3451 This has been fixed.
3453 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3454 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3455 reported on Solaris.
3457 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3458 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3459 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3460 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3461 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3462 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3463 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3465 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3468 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3470 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3472 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3473 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3474 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3475 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3476 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3477 criteria to be more general.
3479 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3480 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3481 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3482 host_all_ignored option.
3484 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3485 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3486 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3487 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3488 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3489 is what is supposed to happen).
3491 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3492 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3493 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3494 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3495 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3498 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3499 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3500 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3501 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3502 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3503 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3506 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3508 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3509 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3511 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3512 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3514 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3516 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3518 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3519 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3520 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3521 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3522 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3523 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3524 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3525 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3526 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3527 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3528 least in a lot of common cases.
3530 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3531 advertised in response to EHLO.
3537 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3538 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3540 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3541 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3543 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3544 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3545 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3547 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3548 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3549 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3550 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3551 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3557 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3558 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3561 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3562 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3563 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3565 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3566 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3567 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3568 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3569 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3570 rather than extend the field.
3576 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3577 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3578 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3579 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3582 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3583 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3584 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3586 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3587 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3588 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3590 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3591 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3592 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3595 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3596 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3597 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3598 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3599 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3600 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3601 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3602 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3603 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3604 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3605 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3607 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3610 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3611 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3612 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3613 ignores EPIPE as well.
3615 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3616 (quoted-printable decoding).
3618 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3619 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3621 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3623 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3625 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3627 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3628 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3630 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3633 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3634 miscellaneous code fixes
3636 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3639 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3640 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3641 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3642 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3643 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3644 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3645 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3646 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3648 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3649 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3650 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3651 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3653 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3654 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3655 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3656 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3657 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3658 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3659 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3660 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3661 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3663 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3666 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3667 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3668 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3669 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3670 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3671 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3672 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3673 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3675 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3676 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3679 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3680 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3681 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3682 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3683 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3684 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3685 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3686 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3687 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3688 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3689 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3690 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3691 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3693 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3694 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3695 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3696 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3697 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3698 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3699 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3701 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3702 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3703 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3704 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3705 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3706 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3707 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3708 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3709 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3710 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3712 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3713 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3714 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3715 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3716 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3718 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3719 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3720 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3721 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3722 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3723 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3724 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3726 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3727 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3728 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3729 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3730 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3731 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3734 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3735 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3736 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3739 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3740 if any retry times were supplied.
3742 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3743 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3744 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3746 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3748 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3750 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3751 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3752 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3753 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3754 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3755 before) are ignored.
3757 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3758 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3760 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3761 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3762 committing the later change.]
3764 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3765 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3766 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3767 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3768 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3769 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3770 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3771 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3772 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3774 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3775 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3776 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3777 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3778 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3779 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3780 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3781 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3782 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3784 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3785 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3786 hammering the server.
3788 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3789 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3791 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3793 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3794 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3795 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3797 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3798 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3799 one case where this was not true.
3801 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3802 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3803 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3804 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3807 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3808 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3809 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3810 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3811 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3812 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3813 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3814 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3815 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3818 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3819 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3820 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3821 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3823 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3824 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3826 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3827 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3828 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3830 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3832 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3834 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3836 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3837 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3838 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3839 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3841 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3842 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3844 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3845 be meaningful with "accept".
3847 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3848 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3850 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3851 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3852 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3854 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3855 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3856 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3857 there is data to show.
3858 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3860 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3861 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3862 as well as the number of messages.
3864 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3865 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3866 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3868 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3869 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3870 have a flag are now skipped.
3872 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3873 Added the -emptyok flag.
3875 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3876 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3878 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3879 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3880 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3882 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3885 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3886 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3888 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3890 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3891 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3893 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3895 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3896 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3897 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3898 contravention of the specifications.
3900 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3901 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3902 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3904 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3905 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3906 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3908 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3910 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3911 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3912 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3913 some point in the past.
3915 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3916 transport during callout processing was broken.
3918 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3919 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3921 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3922 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3924 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3925 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3927 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3933 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3934 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3936 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3937 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3938 there is data to show.
3939 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3941 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3942 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3944 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3945 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3947 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3948 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3950 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3951 submissions from trusted users.
3953 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3954 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3956 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3957 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3958 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3959 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3960 there is now a framework to start from.
3962 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3963 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3964 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3966 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3968 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3970 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3972 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3973 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3974 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3976 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3979 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3980 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3981 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3983 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3984 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3985 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3988 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3989 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3990 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3991 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3992 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3994 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3995 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3997 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3999 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4000 operations in malware.c.
4002 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4005 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4006 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4007 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4010 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4011 statements to "add_header".
4013 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4014 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4016 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4017 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4020 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4024 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4025 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4026 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4029 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4030 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4032 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4033 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4035 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4036 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4037 any possible encoding problems.
4039 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4040 but not after initializing Perl.
4042 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4043 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4044 apparently, which is not desirable.
4046 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4049 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4052 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4054 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4055 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4056 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4057 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4059 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4060 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4061 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4063 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4064 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4065 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4068 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4069 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4070 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4071 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4072 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4078 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4079 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4081 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4084 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4085 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4086 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4087 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4088 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4089 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4090 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4091 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4094 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4096 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4097 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4098 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4100 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4101 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4102 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4105 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4106 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4108 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4109 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4110 option (which defaults to 0600).
4112 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4114 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4115 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4116 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4117 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4118 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4119 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4120 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4122 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4128 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4129 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4130 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4131 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4132 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4133 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4136 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4137 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4139 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4141 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4142 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4143 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4144 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4145 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4148 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4149 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4151 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4152 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4153 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4154 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4155 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4157 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4158 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4159 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4160 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4162 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4163 be the same on different OS.
4165 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4168 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4169 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4171 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4174 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4175 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4176 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4177 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4178 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4179 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4182 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4183 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4184 when Exim was called.
4186 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4187 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4189 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4190 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4191 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4192 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4194 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4195 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4196 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4197 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4200 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4201 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4202 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4204 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4205 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4206 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4208 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4211 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4212 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4213 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4214 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4215 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4216 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4217 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4218 values from the SRV records were lost.
4220 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4221 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4222 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4224 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4225 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4226 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4228 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4229 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4230 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4231 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4232 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4233 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4234 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4235 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4236 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4237 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4239 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4240 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4241 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4243 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4244 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4246 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4247 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4248 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4249 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4252 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4253 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4254 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4256 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4257 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4258 PH/23 above applies.
4260 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4261 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4262 (for which there is an explicit test).
4264 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4266 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4267 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4268 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4269 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4270 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4272 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4273 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4274 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4275 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4277 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4278 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4279 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4281 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4283 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4285 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4286 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4287 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4289 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4290 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4291 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4292 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4293 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4295 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4296 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4297 the message gets confusing).
4299 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4300 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4301 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4302 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4304 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4305 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4306 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4307 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4310 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4311 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4312 the different processes.
4314 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4316 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4318 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4319 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4321 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4322 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4324 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4325 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4326 messages matching specified criteria.
4328 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4330 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4331 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4333 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4334 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4335 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4336 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4337 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4338 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4339 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4340 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4341 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4342 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4344 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4345 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4346 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4348 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4350 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4351 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4352 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4353 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4354 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4355 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4356 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4359 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4360 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4362 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4364 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4366 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4368 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4369 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4370 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4371 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4372 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4373 size of the count of files.
4375 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4377 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4380 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4381 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4382 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4383 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4385 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4386 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4387 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4389 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4390 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4391 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4392 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4393 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4395 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4396 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4398 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4399 will now be deprecated.
4401 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4403 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4404 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4405 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4407 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4408 with very large, slow to parse queues
4410 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4412 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4414 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4415 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4416 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4419 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4420 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4421 Sieve code now uses this.
4423 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4424 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4426 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4427 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4429 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4431 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4432 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4433 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4434 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4435 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4437 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4438 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4439 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4440 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4442 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4444 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4446 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4447 is preferred over IPv4.
4449 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4450 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4451 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4452 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4453 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4454 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4455 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4457 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4458 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4459 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4461 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4463 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4464 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4465 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4466 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4467 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4468 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4469 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4470 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4471 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4472 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4473 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4475 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4476 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4477 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4483 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4485 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4486 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4488 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4489 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4490 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4492 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4494 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4497 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4500 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4501 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4502 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4505 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4506 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4508 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4509 inside the third argument.
4511 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4512 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4515 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4516 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4518 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4519 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4521 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4523 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4524 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4527 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4529 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4530 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4531 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4532 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4533 identical. For example:
4535 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4537 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4538 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4539 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4541 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4542 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4543 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4544 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4546 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4547 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4548 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4551 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4553 o fixes some comments
4554 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4555 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4556 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4557 and documents the missing references header update
4561 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4562 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4565 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4566 Electronic Mail") by including:
4568 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4570 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4571 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4572 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4573 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4574 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4576 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4578 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4580 The auto-replied keyword:
4582 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4583 message by an automatic process,
4585 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4587 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4588 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4590 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4591 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4594 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4595 to the default Received: header definition.
4597 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4599 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4600 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4601 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4603 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4604 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4605 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4607 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4608 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4609 and treats the condition as false.
4611 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4613 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4614 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4615 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4616 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4617 not changing the active code.
4619 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4620 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4622 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4623 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4625 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4628 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4629 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4630 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4631 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4632 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4633 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4634 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4635 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4636 the text comparison.
4638 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4639 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4640 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4641 The same fix has been applied.
4647 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4648 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4651 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4652 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4654 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4656 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4657 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4658 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4659 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4660 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4662 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4663 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4664 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4665 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4668 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4676 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4677 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4679 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4681 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4683 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4684 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4685 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4687 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4688 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4689 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4691 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4692 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4695 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4696 ${stat: expansion item.
4698 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4699 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4701 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4702 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4705 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4707 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4710 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4711 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4713 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4715 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4716 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4717 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4718 the end of the subprocess.
4720 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4721 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4722 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4723 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4724 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4726 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4728 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4730 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4731 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4733 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4735 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4737 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4738 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4741 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4743 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4744 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4745 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4747 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4748 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4750 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4751 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4753 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4754 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4756 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4757 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4759 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4760 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4761 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4762 contributed by a Radius user.
4764 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4765 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4767 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4768 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4770 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4773 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4774 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4777 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4778 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4779 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4780 header lines when this was not necessary.
4782 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4784 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4785 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4786 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4789 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4792 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4793 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4794 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4795 return code was incorrect.
4797 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4799 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4801 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4803 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4805 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4806 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4807 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4808 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4809 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4812 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4814 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4815 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4816 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4817 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4818 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4819 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4820 which is clearly wrong.
4822 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4824 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4825 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4826 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4829 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4830 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4832 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4834 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4835 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4837 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4838 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4840 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4841 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4843 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4844 recipients, not senders.
4846 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4847 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4849 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4851 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4853 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4854 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4855 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4856 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4858 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4860 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4861 clock is set back in time.
4863 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4864 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4866 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4867 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4869 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4870 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4873 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4874 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4877 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4880 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4882 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4883 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4884 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4886 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4887 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4888 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4889 helo verification defer as a failure.
4891 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4892 actual error message.
4898 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4900 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4901 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4902 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4903 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4905 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4907 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4908 can still be requested.
4910 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4911 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4912 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4913 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4915 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4916 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4917 circumstances, but probably never did.
4919 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4920 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4921 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4924 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4926 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4927 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4929 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4931 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4933 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4934 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4935 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4936 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4937 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4938 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4940 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4941 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4942 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4943 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4944 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4945 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4947 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4948 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4950 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4951 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4953 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4954 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4956 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4958 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4960 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4962 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4964 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4966 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4968 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4970 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4971 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4972 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4974 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4975 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4976 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4977 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4979 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4980 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4981 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4983 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4984 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4985 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4986 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4988 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4989 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4992 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4993 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4994 should work with maildirs and everything.
4996 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4997 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4999 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5002 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5003 function for BDB 4.3.
5005 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5007 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5008 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5011 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5012 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5013 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5014 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5015 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5016 formatting function string_vformat().
5018 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5019 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5020 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5021 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5022 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5023 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5024 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5025 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5027 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5028 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5031 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5032 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5034 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5035 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5036 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5037 test. It is now used for both.
5039 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5040 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5041 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5042 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5043 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5044 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5046 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5047 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5048 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5051 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5052 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5053 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5055 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5056 experimental DomainKeys support:
5058 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5059 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5060 the control was given.
5062 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5064 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5066 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5068 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5069 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5070 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5073 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5074 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5075 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5076 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5077 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5078 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5081 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5082 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5083 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5084 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5085 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5086 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5088 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5089 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5090 do -d+all out of habit.
5092 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5093 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5096 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5097 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5098 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5099 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5100 record types that Exim uses.
5102 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5103 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5104 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5105 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5106 non-existent file that was broken.
5108 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5109 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5111 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5112 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5113 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5115 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5117 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5118 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5119 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5120 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5121 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5124 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5125 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5126 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5127 at a slight CPU cost.
5129 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5130 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5132 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5135 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5137 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5138 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5144 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5145 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5147 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5149 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5151 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5152 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5154 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5155 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5156 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5157 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5158 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5159 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5162 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5163 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5164 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5165 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5168 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5169 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5170 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5171 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5172 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5173 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5174 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5177 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5178 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5180 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5181 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5182 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5183 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5184 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5185 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5187 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5188 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5189 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5190 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5192 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5195 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5196 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5198 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5199 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5200 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5201 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5204 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5206 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5207 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5209 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5210 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5211 to what was transported.)
5213 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5215 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5216 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5217 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5218 spamd_address settings.
5220 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5221 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5222 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5223 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5224 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5226 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5228 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5229 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5230 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5231 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5232 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5234 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5235 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5237 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5238 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5239 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5240 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5241 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5242 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5243 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5246 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5247 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5248 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5249 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5250 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5251 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5252 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5255 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5257 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5258 driver and ACL definitions.
5260 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5261 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5263 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5264 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5265 understands it better than I do:
5267 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5268 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5270 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5271 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5272 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5273 => three warnings about OTP not working
5274 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5276 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5277 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5278 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5279 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5281 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5282 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5284 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5285 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5286 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5288 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5289 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5292 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5293 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5296 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5297 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5298 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5300 warn !verify = sender
5301 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5303 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5304 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5306 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5308 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5309 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5311 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5312 nomenclature these days.)
5314 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5315 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5317 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5318 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5319 . First host does not offer TLS;
5320 . First host accepts first address;
5321 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5322 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5323 . Second host accepts second address.
5324 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5325 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5328 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5329 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5330 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5331 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5332 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5334 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5335 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5337 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5338 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5340 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5341 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5342 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5344 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5345 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5348 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5350 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5351 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5352 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5353 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5354 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5355 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5356 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5358 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5359 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5360 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5361 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5362 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5364 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5365 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5368 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5369 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5370 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5371 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5372 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5373 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5375 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5377 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5378 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5379 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5380 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5381 printable escape sequences.
5383 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5384 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5387 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5388 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5391 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5392 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5393 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5394 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5395 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5397 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5398 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5399 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5401 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5403 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5404 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5407 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5408 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5409 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5410 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5411 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5412 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5413 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5414 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5415 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5418 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5419 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5420 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5421 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5425 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5426 ----------------------------------------
5428 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5429 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5430 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5431 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5432 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5433 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5436 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5437 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5438 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5439 historical information.
5445 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5447 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5448 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5450 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5451 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5454 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5455 filter fails to execute.
5457 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5458 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5459 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5460 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5461 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5463 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5465 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5466 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5467 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5468 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5470 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5471 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5472 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5473 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5474 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5476 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5478 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5480 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5481 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5482 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5483 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5485 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5486 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5487 sender verification.
5489 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5490 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5492 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5494 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5497 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5498 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5500 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5501 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5503 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5504 information about exactly what failed.
5506 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5508 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5509 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5510 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5512 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5513 It is now set to "smtps".
5515 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5516 ignore_target_hosts.
5518 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5519 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5520 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5521 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5524 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5525 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5526 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5528 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5529 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5530 wake it up if nothing else does.
5532 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5533 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5534 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5537 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5538 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5540 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5542 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5543 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5544 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5545 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5546 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5547 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5548 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5549 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5551 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5552 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5553 than one IP address.
5555 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5556 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5557 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5558 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5560 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5561 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5562 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5563 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5564 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5567 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5568 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5569 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5570 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5572 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5573 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5576 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5577 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5578 $sender_host_address.
5580 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5581 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5582 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5583 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5584 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5587 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5589 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5590 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5592 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5593 just the host names, not the priorities.
5595 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5596 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5597 controlled by a keyword.
5599 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5600 multiple records are returned.
5602 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5603 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5606 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5608 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5609 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5611 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5612 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5613 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5615 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5617 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5619 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5621 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5622 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5623 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5624 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5625 because the tests only now provoked it.
5627 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5628 (this can affect the format of dates).
5630 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5631 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5632 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5633 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5635 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5637 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5638 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5639 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5640 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5642 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5643 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5644 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5646 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5649 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5650 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5651 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5652 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5653 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5654 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5657 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5658 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5659 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5662 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5663 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5664 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5666 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5667 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5668 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5669 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5670 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5671 so I produce this patch..."
5673 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5674 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5677 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5678 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5679 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5680 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5683 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5685 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5686 long debug lines gets shown.
5688 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5689 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5691 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5693 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5694 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5695 of $primary_hostname.
5697 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5698 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5699 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5700 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5701 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5702 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5703 by change 4.50/55 above.
5705 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5706 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5707 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5708 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5709 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5710 running as the user.
5713 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5714 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5715 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5718 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5719 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5721 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5722 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5723 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5724 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5725 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5727 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5728 This has been fixed.
5730 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5731 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5732 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5733 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5736 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5738 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5739 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5740 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5741 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5743 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5744 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5746 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5747 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5748 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5750 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5751 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5752 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5755 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5756 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5757 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5759 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5760 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5761 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5762 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5764 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5765 during host lookups.
5767 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5768 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5770 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5772 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5773 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5774 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5775 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5776 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5779 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5780 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5782 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5783 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5784 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5786 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5788 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5789 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5790 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5791 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5792 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5793 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5796 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5797 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5798 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5799 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5800 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5802 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5805 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5807 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5808 "vacation" handling.
5810 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5811 OS variants using glibc.
5813 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5816 ----------------------------------------------------
5817 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5818 ----------------------------------------------------
5824 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5825 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5828 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5829 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5832 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5833 filter fails to execute.
5835 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5836 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5837 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5838 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5839 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5841 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5842 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5843 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5844 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5846 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5847 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5848 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5849 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5850 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5852 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5854 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5855 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5856 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5857 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5859 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5860 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5861 sender verification.
5863 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5864 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5866 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5867 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5869 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5870 ignore_target_hosts.
5872 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5873 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5874 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5875 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5878 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5879 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5880 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5882 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5883 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5884 wake it up if nothing else does.
5886 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5887 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5888 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5891 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5892 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5894 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5896 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5897 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5900 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5901 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5904 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5905 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5906 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5907 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5908 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5911 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5912 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5915 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5916 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5917 $sender_host_address.
5919 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5921 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5922 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5923 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5925 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5928 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5929 (this can affect the format of dates).
5931 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5932 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5933 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5934 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5936 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5937 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5938 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5940 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5941 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5942 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5943 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5945 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5946 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5947 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5949 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5952 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5953 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5954 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5955 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5956 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5957 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5960 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5961 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5962 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5963 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5966 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5967 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5968 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5969 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5970 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5971 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5972 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5974 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5975 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5976 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5977 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5978 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5979 running as the user.
5982 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5983 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5984 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5987 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5988 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5989 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5990 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5991 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5993 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5994 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5995 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5996 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5999 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6000 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6001 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6002 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6003 because the tests only now provoked it.
6009 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6010 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6011 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6012 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6013 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6014 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6015 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6017 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6018 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6021 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6023 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6025 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6026 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6029 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6030 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6031 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6032 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6033 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6035 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6036 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6038 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6040 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6042 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6045 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6046 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6048 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6049 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6050 affecting debugging statements).
6052 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6054 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6055 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6056 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6057 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6058 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6059 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6060 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6061 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6062 after the received time, and all would be well.
6064 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6065 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6066 condition in an expansion string.
6068 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6070 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6071 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6072 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6073 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6074 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6075 job under whatever limits there are.
6077 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6079 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6082 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6083 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6084 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6085 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6088 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6089 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6090 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6091 binary data in such strings.
6093 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6095 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6096 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6097 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6098 failure, which is pointless.
6100 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6102 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6104 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6105 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6106 Sender: header lines.
6108 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6109 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6110 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6112 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6113 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6114 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6115 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6116 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6119 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6120 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6121 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6122 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6123 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6125 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6126 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6127 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6130 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6131 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6133 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6134 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6136 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6138 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6140 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6142 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6145 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6147 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6149 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6150 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6151 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6152 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6154 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6155 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6161 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6162 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6163 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6165 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6166 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6167 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6168 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6169 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6170 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6172 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6173 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6174 verification failure".
6176 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6177 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6178 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6179 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6181 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6182 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6183 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6184 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6185 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6186 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6187 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6188 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6189 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6190 treated as a timeout.
6192 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6193 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6194 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6195 not set for Exim filters).
6197 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6198 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6199 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6201 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6203 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6204 try to make them clearer.
6206 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6207 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6209 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6211 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6213 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6214 only the Cygwin environment.
6216 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6217 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6218 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6219 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6220 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6222 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6223 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6224 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6225 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6226 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6227 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6228 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6230 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6231 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6233 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6235 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6236 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6237 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6239 To: susanne@some.where
6241 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6242 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6243 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6244 of addresses in From: header lines).
6246 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6247 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6248 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6250 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6251 treated as non-personal.
6253 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6254 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6256 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6258 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6260 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6261 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6262 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6264 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6265 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6267 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6268 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6269 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6270 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6271 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6272 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6274 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6275 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6276 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6277 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6278 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6279 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6280 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6281 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6283 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6285 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6286 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6288 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6289 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6290 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6292 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6293 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6295 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6296 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6297 rather than long int.
6299 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6301 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6307 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6308 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6309 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6310 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6311 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6312 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6318 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6319 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6321 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6322 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6323 socklen_t is defined.
6325 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6328 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6331 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6332 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6333 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6334 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6335 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6337 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6338 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6339 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6340 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6342 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6343 of flapping under certain conditions.
6345 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6346 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6347 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6349 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6351 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6353 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6354 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6355 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6356 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6358 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6359 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6360 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6361 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6362 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6363 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6364 preserved with the message after it was received.
6366 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6367 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6368 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6369 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6370 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6371 test suite worked just fine.
6373 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6374 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6375 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6377 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6378 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6381 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6382 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6383 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6384 does not fully solve it.
6386 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6387 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6388 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6389 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6390 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6392 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6393 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6394 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6396 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6397 string, for example:
6399 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6401 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6402 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6403 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6404 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6405 the routers could not see them.
6407 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6408 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6410 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6411 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6414 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6415 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6416 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6417 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6418 that needed quoting.
6420 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6421 was not being matched caselessly.
6423 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6426 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6427 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6428 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6429 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6430 when use_sender is false.
6432 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6434 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6436 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6438 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6439 the configuration file.
6441 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6442 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6444 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6446 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6447 bytes in the message body.
6449 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6450 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6453 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6455 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6457 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6458 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6459 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6460 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6467 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6468 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6470 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6471 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6472 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6473 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6474 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6476 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6477 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6479 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6480 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6481 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6483 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6484 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6485 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6487 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6490 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6491 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6492 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6493 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6494 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6495 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6496 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6502 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6503 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6504 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6505 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6506 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6507 default (and expected) setting.
6509 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6510 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6511 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6512 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6514 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6515 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6517 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6520 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6521 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6522 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6523 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6524 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6525 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6527 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6528 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6529 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6531 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6532 part (NOT match_host).
6534 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6536 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6537 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6538 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6539 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6540 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6541 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6542 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6543 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6544 the same named file.
6546 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6547 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6550 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6551 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6552 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6553 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6556 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6557 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6558 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6560 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6562 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6564 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6566 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6567 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6569 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6570 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6571 before starting the TLS session.
6573 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6575 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6576 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6578 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6579 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6580 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6581 colon in the middle).
6587 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6588 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6589 multiple configurations are in use.
6591 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6592 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6593 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6594 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6595 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6596 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6598 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6599 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6601 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6602 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6603 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6605 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6606 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6609 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6610 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6612 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6614 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6615 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6617 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6625 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6626 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6627 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6628 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6629 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6631 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6634 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6635 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6636 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6637 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6638 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6639 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6641 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6642 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6643 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6644 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6645 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6646 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6647 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6650 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6651 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6652 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6653 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6654 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6656 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6658 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6659 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6660 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6662 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6664 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6665 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6666 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6669 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6670 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6672 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6673 Three changes have been made:
6675 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6676 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6677 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6678 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6679 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6681 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6684 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6685 the modified behaviour.
6691 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6694 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6695 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6697 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6698 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6699 try to track down a specific problem.
6701 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6702 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6703 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6705 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6708 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6709 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6710 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6711 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6712 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6713 some earlier ones do not.
6715 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6717 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6718 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6719 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6720 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6721 address literals are enabled, of course).
6723 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6725 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6726 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6727 by a command such as
6731 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6733 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6735 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6736 remained set. It is now erased.
6738 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6739 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6741 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6742 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6743 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6744 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6745 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6746 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6747 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6748 appropriate error code.
6750 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6751 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6752 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6753 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6754 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6755 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6757 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6758 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6759 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6761 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6762 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6763 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6764 terminate the header.
6766 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6767 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6768 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6770 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6771 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6772 (4.30/29). In particular:
6774 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6777 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6778 to write a maildirsize file.
6780 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6781 the transport, the new value overrides.
6783 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6786 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6787 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6788 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6791 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6792 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6793 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6796 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6797 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6798 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6800 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6801 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6804 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6805 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6806 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6808 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6810 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6812 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6814 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6815 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6818 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6819 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6820 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6821 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6822 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6823 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6824 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6827 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6828 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6829 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6830 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6831 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6834 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6835 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6836 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6837 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6838 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6839 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6840 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6841 cached value only when the same options are set.
6843 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6845 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6846 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6847 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6848 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6849 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6851 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6852 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6853 it is clearly obsolete.
6855 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6858 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6859 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6860 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6863 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6864 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6865 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6866 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6867 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6869 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6870 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6871 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6872 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6874 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6876 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6878 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6879 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6882 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6883 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6884 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6885 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6886 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6887 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6890 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6891 with the -f command-line option.
6893 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6894 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6895 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6896 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6897 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6898 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6900 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6901 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6904 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6905 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6906 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6907 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6908 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6909 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6910 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6911 buffer is too small.
6913 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6914 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6916 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6917 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6918 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6919 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6920 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6921 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6922 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6923 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6924 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6926 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6927 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6928 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6930 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6931 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6934 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6935 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6936 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6937 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6938 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6940 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6941 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6942 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6943 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6946 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6948 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6950 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6951 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6953 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6954 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6955 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6957 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6958 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6959 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6960 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6961 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6963 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6964 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6965 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6966 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6967 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6968 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6969 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6971 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6972 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6973 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6974 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6975 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6976 the test of how many are available.
6978 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6979 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6980 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6981 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6982 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6983 new message is started.
6985 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6986 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6988 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6989 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6991 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6992 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6993 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6996 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6997 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6998 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6999 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7000 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7001 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7002 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7004 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7005 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7006 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7007 interpreted as octal.
7009 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7012 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7013 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7014 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7015 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7016 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7017 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7019 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7020 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7021 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7022 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7024 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7025 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7026 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7027 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7029 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7030 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7033 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7034 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7036 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7038 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7039 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7040 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7041 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7043 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7044 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7045 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7046 supplied", which is not helpful.
7048 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7049 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7050 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7052 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7053 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7054 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7055 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7056 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7057 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7058 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7059 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7061 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7062 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7063 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7064 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7065 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7067 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7068 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7069 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7070 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7071 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7072 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7074 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7075 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7076 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7078 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7080 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7081 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7082 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7085 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7087 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7088 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7089 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7090 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7091 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7092 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7093 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7094 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7096 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7097 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7098 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7099 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7100 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7102 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7105 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7106 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7107 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7108 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7109 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7110 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7111 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7112 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7113 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7119 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7120 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7121 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7123 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7126 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7127 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7128 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7130 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7131 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7132 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7133 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7134 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7135 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7137 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7138 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7139 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7140 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7141 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7142 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7143 the Exim test suite.
7145 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7146 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7147 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7148 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7150 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7151 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7152 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7153 specify it in this variable.
7155 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7156 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7157 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7158 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7160 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7161 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7162 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7163 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7165 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7166 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7167 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7168 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7169 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7171 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7173 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7176 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7177 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7178 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7179 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7180 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7182 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7183 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7185 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7186 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7187 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7188 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7189 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7191 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7192 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7194 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7195 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7196 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7198 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7199 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7201 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7202 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7204 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7205 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7206 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7208 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7209 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7211 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7212 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7213 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7214 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7216 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7218 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7219 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7220 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7221 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7223 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7225 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7226 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7228 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7230 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7231 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7232 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7233 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7234 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7235 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7237 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7239 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7240 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7243 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7245 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7246 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7248 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7249 550 Sender verify failed
7251 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7252 the final line of the response.
7254 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7255 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7256 all other user lookups.
7258 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7261 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7262 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7263 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7264 result into an int without checking.
7266 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7267 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7268 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7270 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7271 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7272 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7273 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7275 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7278 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7279 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7281 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7282 to the empty sender.
7284 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7285 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7286 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7287 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7288 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7289 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7290 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7293 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7294 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7295 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7296 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7299 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7300 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7302 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7305 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7306 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7308 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7310 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7311 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7314 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7315 as soon as it is encountered.
7317 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7319 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7322 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7323 recognizes a tab character.
7325 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7326 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7327 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7328 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7330 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7332 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7335 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7337 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7339 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7340 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7343 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7344 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7345 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7346 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7347 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7349 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7350 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7352 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7353 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7354 list (.included file names were always shown).
7356 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7357 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7358 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7361 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7362 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7364 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7366 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7368 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7370 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7371 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7372 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7373 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7374 failures to open the logs.
7376 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7377 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7378 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7379 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7380 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7381 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7382 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7388 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7389 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7390 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7393 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7394 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7395 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7397 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7398 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7399 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7401 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7402 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7403 causing some misleading effects.
7405 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7406 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7407 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7409 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7410 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7411 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7412 queue-runner function directly.
7418 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7421 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7422 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7423 was always written to the default place.
7425 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7426 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7427 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7429 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7431 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7433 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7434 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7435 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7437 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7438 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7441 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7442 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7443 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7445 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7446 command line option is disabled.
7448 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7449 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7451 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7453 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7455 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7456 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7458 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7460 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7461 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7462 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7463 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7464 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7465 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7467 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7468 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7471 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7472 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7474 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7475 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7477 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7478 received was valid base64.
7480 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7481 name of the variable that was being set.
7483 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7485 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7486 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7487 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7488 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7489 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7490 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7492 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7494 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7495 nor realm was specified.
7497 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7498 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7499 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7500 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7502 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7503 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7504 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7506 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7507 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7508 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7510 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7511 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7512 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7513 some systems use these upper case variants.
7515 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7516 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7517 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7518 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7520 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7522 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7523 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7525 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7526 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7529 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7531 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7532 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7533 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7534 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7536 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7539 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7540 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7541 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7543 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7544 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7546 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7547 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7548 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7549 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7551 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7552 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7553 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7555 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7557 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7558 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7559 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7560 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7563 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7564 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7565 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7567 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7569 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7570 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7572 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7573 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7575 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7576 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7577 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7578 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7579 when emails are that large.
7586 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7587 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7589 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7590 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7591 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7593 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7594 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7595 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7597 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7598 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7599 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7600 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7601 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7603 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7604 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7605 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7606 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7607 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7610 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7611 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7612 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7613 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7614 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7615 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7616 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7617 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7618 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7619 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7620 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7621 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7622 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7623 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7625 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7626 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7629 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7630 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7631 error should be diagnosed.
7633 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7634 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7635 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7636 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7637 appeared instead of "NULL".
7639 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7640 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7641 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7642 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7643 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7644 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7647 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7648 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7649 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7655 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7656 or receiver verification errors.
7658 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7661 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7662 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7663 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7664 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7666 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7667 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7668 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7669 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7670 shouldn't happen again.
7672 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7673 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7674 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7676 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7677 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7679 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7681 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7682 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7684 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7685 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7688 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7689 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7690 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7692 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7693 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7694 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7695 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7697 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7698 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7699 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7700 to define what should happen).
7702 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7703 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7704 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7706 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7708 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7710 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7711 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7713 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7714 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7715 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7716 structure in all cases.
7718 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7719 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7720 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7721 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7723 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7724 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7727 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7728 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7730 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7731 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7733 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7734 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7735 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7737 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7738 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7739 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7741 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7742 the book and for uniformity.
7744 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7746 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7747 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7748 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7749 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7750 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7751 non-existent command as the problem.
7753 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7754 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7755 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7757 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7759 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7760 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7761 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7763 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7764 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7765 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7766 timestamps using strftime().
7768 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7769 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7771 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7772 transport-time rewrites.
7774 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7775 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7776 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7777 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7779 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7780 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7782 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7783 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7784 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7785 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7788 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7789 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7790 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7791 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7792 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7793 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7794 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7796 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7797 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7798 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7799 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7800 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7802 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7803 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7804 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7805 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7806 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7807 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7808 remaining text gets split now.
7810 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7811 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7812 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7813 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7815 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7816 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7817 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7818 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7821 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7822 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7823 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7824 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7825 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7826 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7827 passed through if needed.
7829 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7830 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7831 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7832 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7833 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7834 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7836 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7837 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7838 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7839 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7840 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7842 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7843 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7844 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7845 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7846 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7848 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7849 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7852 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7853 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7854 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7855 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7856 mayhem of various kinds.
7858 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7859 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7860 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7861 the right test for positive values.
7863 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7864 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7865 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7866 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7867 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7868 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7869 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7870 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7871 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7872 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7875 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7878 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7879 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7882 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7883 the existing equality matching.
7885 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7886 dealing with inode numbers.
7888 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7889 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7890 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7892 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7893 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7894 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7895 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7898 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7899 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7900 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7901 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7902 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7903 relay addresses has also been removed.
7905 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7907 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7908 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7909 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7911 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7912 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7913 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7914 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7915 processing applies to CR:
7917 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7918 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7920 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7921 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7922 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7923 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7925 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7926 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7927 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7929 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7930 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7931 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7932 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7933 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7934 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7937 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7940 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7941 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7942 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7943 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7946 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7948 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7950 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7952 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7953 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7954 not considered personal.
7956 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7958 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7960 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7962 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7963 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7964 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7965 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7966 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7967 header lines, and spool format errors.
7969 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7970 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7971 for more flexibility.
7973 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7974 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7975 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7977 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7980 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7981 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7982 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7983 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7984 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7985 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7986 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7987 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7988 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7990 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7991 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7992 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7993 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7994 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7995 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7996 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7998 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7999 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8000 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8002 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8003 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8004 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8005 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8006 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8007 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8008 instead of killing the process with assert().
8010 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8011 than Unicode encoding.
8013 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8014 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8015 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8016 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8018 77. Added process_log_path.
8020 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8021 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8023 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8024 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8026 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8027 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8028 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8030 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8031 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8032 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8033 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8034 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8037 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8038 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8041 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8042 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8043 they will be used during message reception.
8049 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.