1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
8 JH/01 Support list of dkim results in the dkim_status ACL condition, making
9 it more usable in the data ACL.
11 JH/02 Bug 3040: Handle error on close of the spool data file during reception.
12 Previously This was only logged, on the assumption that errors would be
13 seen for a previous fflush(). However, a fuse filesystem has been
14 reported as showing this an error for the fclose(). The spool is now in
15 an uncertain state, and we have logged and responded acceptance. Change
16 this to respond with a temp-reject, wipe spoolfiles, and log the error
19 JH/03 Bug 3030: Fix handling of DNS servfail respons for DANE TLSA. When hit
20 during a recipient verify callout, a QUIT command was attempted on the
21 now-closed callout channel, causing a paniclog entry.
23 JH/04 Bug 3039: Fix handling of of an empty log_reject_target, with
24 a connection_reject log_selector, under tls_on_connect. Previously
25 with this combination, when the connect ACL rejected, a spurious
26 paniclog entry was made.
28 JH/05 Fix TLS resumption for TLS-on-connect. This was broken by the advent
29 of loadbalancer-detection for resumption, in 4.96 - which tries to
30 use the EHLO response. SMTPS does not have one at the time it is starting
31 TLS. Change the default for the smtp transport host_name_extract option
32 to be a static string, for TLS-on-connect cases; meaning that resumption
33 will always be attempted (unless deliberately overriden).
35 JH/06 Bug 3054: Fix dnsdb lookup for a TXT record with multiple chunks, with a
36 chunk-separator specification. This was broken by hardening introduced
39 JH/07 Bug 3050: Fix -bp for old message_id format spoolfiles. Previously it
40 included the -H with the id; this also messed up exiqgrep.
42 JH/08 Bug 3056: Tighten up parsing of DKIM DNS records. Previously, whitespace
43 was not properly skipped and empty elements would cause mis-parsing.
44 Tighten parsing of DKIM header records. Previously, all but lowercase
45 alpha chars would be ignored in potential tag names.
47 JH/09 Bug 3057: Add heuristic for spotting mistyped IPv6 addresses in lists
48 being searched. Previously we only had one for IPv4 addresses. Per the
49 documentation, the error results by default in a no-match result for the
50 list. It is logged if the unknown_in_list log_selector is used.
52 JH/10 Bug 3058: Ensure that a failing expansion in a router "set" option defers
53 the routing operation. Previously it would silently stop routing the
56 JH/11 Bug 3046: Fix queue-runs. Previously, the arrivel of a notification or
57 info-request event close in time to a scheduled run timer could result in
58 the latter being missed, and no further queue scheduled runs being
59 initiated. This ouwld be more likely on high-load systems.
61 JH/12 Refuse to accept a line "dot, LF" as end-of-DATA unless operating in
62 LF-only mode (as detected from the first header line). Previously we did
63 accept that in (normal) CRLF mode; this has been raised as a possible
64 attack scenario (under the name "smtp smuggling").
66 JH/13 Add an fdatasync call for the received message data file in spool, before
67 loggging reception and sending the SMTP ack. Previously we only flushed
68 the stdio buffer so there was still the possibility of a disk error.
75 JH/01 The hosts_connection_nolog main option now also controls "no MAIL in
76 SMTP connection" log lines.
78 JH/02 Option default value updates:
79 - queue_fast_ramp (main) true (was false)
80 - remote_max_parallel (main) 4 (was 2)
82 JH/03 Cache static regex pattern compilations, for use by ACLs.
84 JH/04 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
85 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
86 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
88 JH/05 Follow symlinks for placing a watch on TLS creds files. This means
89 (under Linux) we watch the dir containing the final file; previously
90 it would be the dir with the first symlink. We still do not monitor
93 JH/06 Check for bad chars in rDNS for sender_host_name. The OpenBSD (at least)
94 dn_expand() is happy to pass them through.
96 JH/07 OpenSSL Fix auto-reload of changed server OCSP proof. Previously, if
97 the file with the proof had an unchanged name, the new proof(s) were
98 loaded on top of the old ones (and nover used; the old ones were stapled).
100 JH/08 Bug 2915: Fix use-after-free for $regex<n> variables. Previously when
101 more than one message arrived in a single connection a reference from
102 the earlier message could be re-used. Often a sigsegv resulted.
103 These variables were introduced in Exim 4.87.
104 Debug help from Graeme Fowler.
106 JH/09 Fix ${filter } for conditions that modify $value. Previously the
107 modified version would be used in construction the result, and a memory
110 JH/10 GnuTLS: fix for (IOT?) clients offering no TLS extensions at all.
111 Find and fix by Jasen Betts.
113 JH/11 OpenSSL: fix for ancient clients needing TLS support for versions earlier
114 than TLSv1,2, Previously, more-recent versions of OpenSSL were permitting
115 the systemwide configuration to override the Exim config.
117 HS/01 Bug 2728: Introduce EDITME option "DMARC_API" to work around incompatible
118 API changes in libopendmarc.
120 JH/12 Bug 2930: Fix daemon startup. When started from any process apart from
121 pid 1, in the normal "background daemon" mode, having to drop process-
122 group leadership also lost track of needing to create listener sockets.
124 JH/13 Bug 2929: Fix using $recipients after ${run...}. A change made for 4.96
125 resulted in the variable appearing empty. Find and fix by Ruben Jenster.
127 JH/14 Bug 2933: Fix regex substring match variables for null matches. Since 4.96
128 a capture group which obtained no text (eg. "(abc)*" matching zero
129 occurrences) could cause a segfault if the corresponding $<n> was
132 JH/15 Fix argument parsing for ${run } expansion. Previously, when an argument
133 included a close-brace character (eg. it itself used an expansion) an
136 JH/16 Move running the smtp connect ACL to before, for TLS-on-connect ports,
137 starting TLS. Previously it was after, meaning that attackers on such
138 ports had to be screened using the host_reject_connection main config
139 option. The new sequence aligns better with the STARTTLS behaviour, and
140 permits defences against crypto-processing load attacks, even though it
141 is strictly an incompatible change.
142 Also, avoid sending any SMTP fail response for either the connect ACL
143 or host_reject_connection, for TLS-on-connect ports.
145 JH/17 Permit the ACL "encrypted" condition to be used in a HELO/EHLO ACL,
146 Previously this was not permitted, but it makes reasonable sense.
147 While there, restore a restriction on using it from a connect ACL; given
148 the change JH/16 it could only return false (and before 4.91 was not
151 JH/18 Fix a fencepost error in logging. Previously (since 4.92) when a log line
152 was exactly sized compared to the log buffer, a crash occurred with the
153 misleading message "bad memory reference; pool not found".
154 Found and traced by Jasen Betts.
156 JH/19 Bug 2911: Fix a recursion in DNS lookups. Previously, if the main option
157 dns_again_means_nonexist included an element causing a DNS lookup which
158 itself returned DNS_AGAIN, unbounded recursion occurred. Possible results
159 included (though probably not limited to) a process crash from stack
160 memory limit, or from excessive open files. Replace this with a paniclog
161 whine (as this is likely a configuration error), and returning
164 JH/20 Bug 2954: (OpenSSL) Fix setting of explicit EC curve/group. Previously
165 this always failed, probably leading to the usual downgrade to in-clear
168 JH/21 Fix TLSA lookups. Previously dns_again_means_nonexist would affect
169 SERVFAIL results, which breaks the downgrade resistance of DANE. Change
170 to not checking that list for these lookups.
172 JH/22 Bug 2434: Add connection-elapsed "D=" element to more connection
175 JH/23 Fix crash in string expansions. Previously, if an empty variable was
176 immediately followed by an expansion operator, a null-indirection read
177 was done, killing the process.
179 JH/24 Bug 2997: When built with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO, bounce messages can
180 include an SMTP response string which is longer than that supported
181 by the delivering transport. Alleviate by wrapping such lines before
184 JH/25 Bug 2827: Restrict size of References: header in bounce messages to 998
185 chars (RFC limit). Previously a limit of 12 items was made, which with
186 a not-impossible References: in the message being bounced could still
187 be over-large and get stopped in the transport.
189 JH/26 For a ${readsocket } in TLS mode, send a TLS Close Alert before the TCP
190 close. Previously a bare socket close was done.
192 JH/27 Fix ${srs_encode ..}. Previously it would give a bad result for one day
195 JH/28 Bug 2996: Fix a crash in the smtp transport. When finding that the
196 message being considered for delivery was already being handled by
197 another process, and having an SMTP connection already open, the function
198 to close it tried to use an uninitialized variable. This would afftect
199 high-volume sites more, especially when running mailing-list-style loads.
200 Pollution of logs was the major effect, as the other process delivered
201 the message. Found and partly investigated by Graeme Fowler.
203 JH/29 Change format of the internal ID used for message identification. The old
204 version only supported 31 bits for a PID element; the new 64 (on systems
205 which can use Base-62 encoding, which is all currently supported ones
206 but not Darwin (MacOS) or Cygwin, which have case-insensitive filesystems
207 and must use Base-36). The new ID is 23 characters rather than 16, and is
208 visible in various places - notably logs, message headers, and spool file
209 names. Various of the ancillary utilities also have to know the format.
210 As well as the expanded PID portion, the sub-second part of the time
211 recorded in the ID is expanded to support finer precision. Theoretically
212 this permits a receive rate from a single comms channel of better than the
214 The major timestamp part of the ID is not changed; at 6 characters it is
215 usable until about year 3700.
216 Updating from previously releases is fully supported: old-format spool
217 files are still usable, and the utilities support both formats. New
218 message will use the new format. The one hints-DB file type which uses
219 message-IDs (the transport wait- DB) will be discarded if an old-format ID
220 is seen; new ones will be built with only new-format IDs.
221 Optionally, a utility can be used to convert spool files from old to new,
222 but this is only an efficiency measure not a requirement for operation
223 Downgrading from new to old requires running a provided utility, having
224 first stopped all operations. This will convert any spool files from new
225 back to old (losing time-precision and PID information) and remove any
226 wait- hints databases.
228 JH/30 Bug 3006: Fix handling of JSON strings having embedded commas. Previously
229 we treated them as item separators when parsing for a list item, but they
230 need to be protected by the doublequotes. While there, add handling for
233 JH/31 Bug 2998: Fix ${utf8clean:...} to disallow UTF-16 surrogate codepoints.
234 Found and fixed by Jasen Betts. No testcase for this as my usual text
235 editor insists on emitting only valid UTF-8.
237 JH/32 Fix "tls_dhparam = none" under GnuTLS. At least with 3.7.9 this gave
238 a null-indirection SIGSEGV for the receive process.
240 JH/33 Fix free for live variable $value created by a ${run ...} expansion during
241 -bh use. Internal checking would spot this and take a panic.
243 JH/34 Bug 3013: Fix use of $recipients within arguments for ${run...}.
244 In 4.96 this would expand to empty.
246 JH/35 Bug 3014: GnuTLS: fix expiry date for an auto-generated server
247 certificate. Find and fix by Andreas Metzler.
249 JH/36 Add ARC info to DMARC hostory records.
251 JH/37 Bug 3016: Avoid sending DSN when message was accepted under fakereject
252 or fakedefer. Previously the sender could discover that the message
253 had in fact been accepted.
255 JH/38 Taint-track intermediate values from the peer in multi-stage authentation
256 sequences. Previously the input was not noted as being tainted; notably
257 this resulted in behaviour of LOGIN vs. PLAIN being inconsistent under
258 bad coding of authenticators.
260 JH/39 Bug 3023: Fix crash induced by some combinations of zero-length strings
261 and ${tr...}. Found and diagnosed by Heiko Schlichting.
263 JH/40 Bug 2999: Fix a possible OOB write in the external authenticator, which
264 could be triggered by externally-supplied input. Found by Trend Micro.
267 JH/41 Bug 3000: Fix a possible OOB write in the SPA authenticator, which could
268 be triggered by externally-controlled input. Found by Trend Micro.
271 JH/42 Bug 3001: Fix a possible OOB read in the SPA authenticator, which could
272 be triggered by externally-controlled input. Found by Trend Micro.
275 JH/43 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
276 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
277 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
279 JH/44 Bug 3033: Harden dnsdb lookups against crafted DNS responses.
282 HS/02 Fix string_is_ip_address() CVE-2023-42117 (Bug 3031)
288 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique message IDs) from
289 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
290 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
293 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
294 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
296 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
297 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
298 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
299 not be modified by local-scan code.
301 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
302 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
304 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
305 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
308 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
309 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
311 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
312 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
315 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
316 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
317 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
319 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
320 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
321 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
323 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
324 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
325 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
326 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
327 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
328 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
329 Assorted crashes happen.
331 JH/11 Fix use of $sender_host_name in daemon process. When used in certain
332 main-section options or in a connect ACL, the value from the first ever
333 connection was never replaced for subsequent connections. Found by
336 JH/12 Bug 2838: Fix for i32lp64 hard-align platforms. Found for SPARC Linux,
337 though only once PCRE2 was introduced: the memory accounting used under
338 debug offset allocations by an int, giving a hard trap in early startup.
339 Change to using a size_t. Debug and fix by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.
341 JH/13 Bug 2845: Fix handling of tls_require_ciphers for OpenSSL when a value
342 with underbars is given. The write-protection of configuration introduced
343 in 4.95 trapped when normalisation was applied to an option not needing
346 JH/14 Bug 1895: TLS: Deprecate RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
348 JH/15 Fix a resource leak in *BSD. An off-by-one error resulted in the daemon
349 failing to close the certificates directory, every hour or any time it
352 JH/16 Debugging initiated by an ACL control now continues through into routing
353 and transport processes. Previously debugging stopped any time Exim
354 re-execs, or for processing a queued message.
356 JH/17 The "expand" debug selector now gives more detail, specifically on the
357 result of expansion operators and items.
359 JH/18 Bug 2751: Fix include_directory in redirect routers. Previously a
360 bad comparison between the option value and the name of the file to
361 be included was done, and a mismatch was wrongly identified.
362 4.88 to 4.95 are affected.
364 JH/19 Support for Berkeley DB versions 1 and 2 is withdrawn.
366 JH/20 When built with NDBM for hints DB's check for nonexistence of a name
367 supplied as the db file-pair basename. Previously, if a directory
368 path was given, for example via the autoreply "once" option, the DB
369 file.pag and file.dir files would be created in that directory's
372 JH/21 Remove the "allow_insecure_tainted_data" main config option and the
373 "taint" log_selector. These were previously deprecated.
375 JH/22 Fix static address-list lookups to properly return the matched item.
376 Previously only the domain part was returned.
378 JH/23 Bug 2864: FreeBSD: fix transport hang after 4xx/5xx response. Previously
379 the call into OpenSSL to send a TLS Close was being repeated; this
380 resulted in the library waiting for the peer's Close. If that was never
381 sent we waited forever. Fix by tracking send calls.
383 JH/24 The ${run} expansion item now expands its command string elements after
384 splitting. Previously it was before; the new ordering makes handling
385 zero-length arguments simpler. The old ordering can be obtained by
386 appending a new option "preexpand", after a comma, to the "run".
388 JH/25 Taint-check exec arguments for transport-initiated external processes.
389 Previously, tainted values could be used. This affects "pipe", "lmtp" and
390 "queryprogram" transport, transport-filter, and ETRN commands.
391 The ${run} expansion is also affected: in "preexpand" mode no part of
392 the command line may be tainted, in default mode the executable name
395 JH/26 Fix CHUNKING on a continued-transport. Previously the usabliility of
396 the the facility was not passed across execs, and only the first message
397 passed over a connection could use BDAT; any further ones using DATA.
399 JH/27 Support the PIPECONNECT facility in the smtp transport when the helo_data
400 uses $sending_ip_address and an interface is specified.
401 Previously any use of the local address in the EHLO name disabled
402 PIPECONNECT, the common case being to use the rDNS of it.
404 JH/28 OpenSSL: fix transport-required OCSP stapling verification under session
405 resumption. Previously verify failed because no certificate status is
406 passed on the wire for the restarted session. Fix by using the recorded
407 ocsp status of the stored session for the new connection.
409 JH/29 TLS resumption: the key for session lookup in the client now includes
410 more info that a server could potentially use in configuring a TLS
411 session, avoiding oferring mismatching sessions to such a server.
412 Previously only the server IP was used.
414 JH/30 Fix string_copyn() for limit greater than actual string length.
415 Previously the copied amount was the limit, which could result in a
416 overlapping memcpy for newly allocated destination soon after a
417 source string shorter than the limit. Found/investigated by KM.
419 JH/31 Bug 2886: GnuTLS: Do not free the cached creds on transport connection
420 close; it may be needed for a subsequent connection. This caused a
421 SEGV on primary-MX defer. Found/investigated by Gedalya & Andreas.
423 JH/32 Fix CHUNKING for a second message on a connection when the first was
424 rejected. Previously we did not reset the chunking-offered state, and
425 erroneously rejected the BDAT command. Investigation help from
428 JH/33 Fis ${srs_encode ...} to handle an empty sender address, now returning
429 an empty address. Previously the expansion returned an error.
431 HS/01 Bug 2855: Handle a v4mapped sender address given us by a frontending
432 proxy. Previously these were misparsed, leading to paniclog entries.
438 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
439 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
440 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
442 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
443 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
444 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
445 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
447 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
448 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
449 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
450 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
451 so could be handling tainted values.
453 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
454 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
455 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
457 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
458 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
459 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
462 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
463 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
464 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
465 to align better with RFC 6125.
467 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
468 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
469 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
470 by adding a release action in that path.
472 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
473 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
474 dynamically-created buffers.
476 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
477 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
478 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
479 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
481 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
482 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
483 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
484 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
486 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
487 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
488 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
490 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
491 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
492 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
493 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
495 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
496 excluded, not matching the documentation.
498 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
499 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
501 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
502 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
503 this was a coding error.
505 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
506 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
507 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
508 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
509 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
510 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
511 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
513 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
514 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
515 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
516 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
518 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
519 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
520 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
521 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
522 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
524 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
525 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
528 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
529 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
530 domain-parking registrar.
532 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
533 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
534 after removing the newline.
536 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
537 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
538 option set, which was previously used.
540 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
543 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
544 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
545 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
546 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
548 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
549 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
550 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
551 exim.dev.20160529.3).
553 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
554 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
555 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
557 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
558 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
559 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
562 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
563 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
564 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
566 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
567 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
568 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
569 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
572 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
573 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
574 there, handle PRX and TFO.
576 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
577 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
578 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
579 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
580 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
582 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
583 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
584 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
585 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
588 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
589 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
591 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
594 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
595 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
596 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
597 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
598 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
600 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
602 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
603 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
604 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
605 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
606 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
607 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
609 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
610 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
612 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
613 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
614 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
616 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
617 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
620 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
621 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
622 of a new variable: $auth4.
624 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
625 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
626 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
627 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
628 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
630 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
631 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
632 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
633 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
635 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
636 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
637 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
639 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
640 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
641 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
642 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
645 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
646 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
647 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
650 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
651 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
652 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
653 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
655 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
656 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
658 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
659 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
660 looked as if if might be one.
662 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
663 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
664 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
665 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
666 messages can show the proxy information.
668 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
669 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
670 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
671 "queue_time_exclusive".
673 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
674 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
675 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
677 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
678 making it unusable in complex expressions.
680 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
681 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
684 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
686 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
688 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
690 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
691 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
692 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
693 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
695 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
696 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
698 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
699 better. Reported by Qualys.
701 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
702 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
705 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
707 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
710 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
712 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
713 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
714 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
715 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
717 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
718 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
720 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
721 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
722 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
723 mode until after various protocol state checks.
724 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
726 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
728 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
729 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
731 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
734 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
735 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
736 executed child processes (if any).
738 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
741 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
742 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
743 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
744 been reported on other platforms.
746 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
748 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
749 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
750 Not supported on Solaris 10.
752 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
753 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
754 since fakereject was originally introduced.
756 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
757 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
759 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
760 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
761 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
764 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
765 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
766 which only permit IP addresses.
772 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
773 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
774 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
776 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
778 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
779 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
782 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
783 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
784 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
786 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
788 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
790 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
791 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
792 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
794 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
795 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
796 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
798 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
799 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
801 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
802 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
805 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
806 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
807 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
808 should both provide the file and set the option.
809 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
811 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
812 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
814 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
815 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
816 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
817 Authentication-Results: header.
819 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
820 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
821 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
822 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
824 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
825 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
826 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
827 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
828 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
829 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
830 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
832 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
833 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
834 copies while it is still usable.
836 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
837 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
838 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
840 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
841 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
843 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
844 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
845 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
846 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
848 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
849 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
850 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
853 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
854 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
855 - the pipe transport command
856 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
857 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
859 - paths used by single-key lookups
860 Previously this was permitted.
862 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
863 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
864 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
865 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
867 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
868 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
869 support larger malloc requests.
871 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
872 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
873 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
874 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
876 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
877 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
878 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
879 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
882 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
883 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
884 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
885 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
886 data being length-specified.
888 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
889 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
890 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
891 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
893 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
894 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
895 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
896 not being properly tracked.
898 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
899 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
900 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
901 minute could be seen.
903 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
904 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
905 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
907 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
908 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
910 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
911 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
914 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
916 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
917 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
919 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
920 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
921 filesystem as sufficient validation.
923 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
924 argument is supplied.
926 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
927 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
928 access under Exim's current working directory.
930 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
931 Previously no event was raised.
933 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
934 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
935 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
938 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
939 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
940 the size of the signature hash.
942 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
943 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
945 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
946 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
947 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
948 dropped between messages.
950 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
951 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
952 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
953 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
955 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
956 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
957 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
958 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
959 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
960 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
961 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
962 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
963 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
965 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
966 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
967 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
969 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
970 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
977 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
978 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
980 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
981 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
984 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
987 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
989 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
991 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
992 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
994 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
995 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
996 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
997 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
998 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
999 suitably configured).
1001 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
1002 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
1004 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
1005 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
1008 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
1009 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
1011 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
1012 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
1013 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
1014 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
1017 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
1018 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
1019 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
1021 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
1024 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
1025 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
1027 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
1028 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
1029 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
1030 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
1033 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
1034 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
1035 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
1036 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
1037 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
1039 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
1040 shared (NFS) environment.
1042 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
1043 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
1046 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
1047 on some platforms for bit 31.
1049 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
1050 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
1051 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
1052 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
1053 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
1054 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
1055 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
1056 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
1058 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
1060 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
1061 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
1063 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
1064 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
1067 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
1068 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
1071 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
1072 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
1073 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
1076 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
1077 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
1078 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
1080 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
1081 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
1082 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
1083 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
1084 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
1086 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
1089 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
1090 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
1091 be requested on all coneections.
1093 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
1094 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
1096 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
1098 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
1099 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
1100 one for these; the option was ignored.
1102 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
1103 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
1104 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
1105 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
1107 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
1108 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
1109 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
1112 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
1113 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
1114 error ignored was made.
1116 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
1118 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
1119 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
1120 values, to catch one form of exploit.
1122 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
1123 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
1124 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
1126 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
1127 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
1130 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
1131 them in our smtp response.
1133 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
1134 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
1135 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
1136 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
1137 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
1139 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
1140 link count into consideration.
1142 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
1143 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
1145 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
1146 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
1147 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
1150 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
1152 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
1154 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
1156 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
1157 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
1158 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
1159 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
1161 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
1163 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
1164 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
1167 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
1168 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
1169 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
1171 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
1172 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
1173 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
1175 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
1176 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
1177 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
1178 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
1179 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
1180 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
1181 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
1182 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
1184 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
1185 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
1186 resulted in an indefinite loop.
1188 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
1189 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
1190 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
1192 JH/48 Bug 2784: fix shutdown=no in the ${readsocket) expansion item. Previously
1193 an incorrect mode was used for reading the result, resulting in it being
1200 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
1201 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
1203 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
1204 non-signal-safe functions being used.
1206 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
1207 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
1208 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
1210 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
1211 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
1212 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
1214 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
1215 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
1216 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
1217 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
1218 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
1221 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
1222 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
1224 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
1225 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
1226 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
1227 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
1228 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
1229 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
1230 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
1232 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
1233 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
1235 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
1238 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
1239 Previously this would segfault.
1241 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
1244 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
1245 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
1246 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
1247 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
1248 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
1249 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
1251 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
1253 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
1254 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
1255 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
1256 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
1258 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
1260 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
1261 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
1262 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
1263 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
1265 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
1267 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
1269 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
1270 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
1271 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
1273 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
1274 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
1275 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
1277 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
1279 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
1280 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
1281 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
1282 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
1284 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
1285 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
1286 promised '?' replacement.
1288 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
1290 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
1291 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
1292 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
1293 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
1294 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
1296 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
1297 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
1298 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
1300 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
1301 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
1302 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
1304 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
1305 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
1306 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
1308 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
1309 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
1310 hope that is portable enough.
1312 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
1313 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
1314 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
1315 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
1317 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
1318 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
1319 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
1321 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
1322 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
1323 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
1324 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
1326 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
1327 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
1329 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
1330 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
1331 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
1332 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
1334 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
1335 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
1336 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
1338 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
1339 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
1340 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
1341 the previous G, M, k.
1343 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
1344 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
1347 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
1348 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
1349 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
1350 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
1352 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
1353 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
1355 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
1356 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
1357 off past the nul-terimation.
1359 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
1360 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
1361 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
1362 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
1363 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
1365 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
1367 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
1368 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
1369 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
1372 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
1373 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
1375 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
1376 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
1377 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
1379 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
1380 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
1381 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
1383 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
1384 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1390 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1391 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1392 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1393 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1394 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1395 be defined in redis_servers.
1397 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1398 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1400 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1401 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1402 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1403 extant use locations.
1405 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1406 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1408 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1409 Previously only the last row was returned.
1411 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1412 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1413 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1414 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1417 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1418 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1419 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1420 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1421 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1422 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1423 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1424 Main pool for expansions.
1425 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1426 active in the testsuite.
1427 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1429 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1430 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1431 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1432 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1435 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1436 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1439 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1440 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1441 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1443 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1444 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1445 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1447 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1448 rows affected is given instead).
1450 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1451 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1453 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1454 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1455 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1456 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1457 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1459 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1460 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1461 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1463 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1464 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1465 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1466 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1469 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1470 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1471 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1474 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1476 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1477 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1479 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1480 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1481 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1483 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1484 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1485 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1488 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1489 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1491 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1492 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1493 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1495 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1496 for the build is renamed.
1498 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1499 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1500 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1502 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1503 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1504 result replacing the original.
1506 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1507 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1508 and the resources needed to be freed.
1510 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1512 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1515 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1516 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1517 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1518 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1520 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1521 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1523 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1524 newer versions of the scanner.
1526 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1527 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1528 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1529 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1530 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1531 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1532 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1534 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1535 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1536 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1537 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1538 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1539 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1540 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1541 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1542 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1543 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1545 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1546 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1548 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1550 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1551 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1553 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1554 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1556 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1557 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1558 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1560 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1561 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1562 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1563 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1565 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1566 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1569 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1570 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1572 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1573 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1574 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1575 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1576 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1578 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1579 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1582 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1583 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1585 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1588 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1589 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1590 "bare" representation.
1592 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1593 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1594 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1595 corrupted the output.
1601 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1602 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1603 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1604 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1606 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1607 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1609 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1610 This permits better logging.
1612 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1613 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1614 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1615 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1616 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1617 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1619 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1620 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1623 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1624 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1625 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1627 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1628 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1630 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1631 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1632 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1633 client, there is no benefit for these.
1634 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1635 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1636 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1639 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1640 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1642 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1643 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1644 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1646 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1647 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1649 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1650 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1651 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1652 signature and again for transmission.
1654 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1655 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1656 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1658 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1659 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1660 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1661 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1662 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1663 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1664 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1666 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1667 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1668 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1669 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1671 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1672 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1673 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1674 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1675 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1676 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1679 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1680 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1681 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1682 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1685 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1686 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1687 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1688 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1691 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1692 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1695 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1696 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1697 banner-time rejection.
1699 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1702 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1703 is the name of a transport.
1706 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1708 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1709 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1711 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1712 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1713 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1716 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1717 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1718 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1719 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1721 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1722 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1723 initial verify call returned a defer.
1725 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1726 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1728 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1729 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1731 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1732 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1734 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1735 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1737 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1738 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1741 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1742 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1744 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1745 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1746 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1748 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1749 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1750 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1751 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1753 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1754 and confused the parent.
1756 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1757 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1759 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1762 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1763 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1764 out-of-order delivery.
1766 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1767 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1768 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1771 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1772 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1775 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1776 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1777 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1779 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1780 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1781 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1782 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1783 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1784 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1786 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1787 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1788 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1790 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1791 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1792 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1794 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1795 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1796 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1797 though a different problem.
1803 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1804 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1806 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1808 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1809 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1811 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1812 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1814 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1815 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1816 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1817 before acknowledging the chunk.
1819 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1820 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1821 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1823 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1824 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1825 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1828 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1829 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1830 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1832 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1833 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1835 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1836 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1837 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1838 body hash calculated value.
1840 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1841 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1842 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1844 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1846 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1847 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1849 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1850 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1851 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1853 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1854 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1855 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1856 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1857 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1858 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1860 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1861 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1862 past that check, despite the cost.
1864 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1865 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1866 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1868 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1869 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1870 TLS library to consume.
1872 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1874 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1876 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1877 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1878 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1879 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1880 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1881 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1882 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1884 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1886 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1888 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1889 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1890 should be warning-free.
1892 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1894 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1895 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1897 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1898 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1899 general solution here.
1901 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1902 already-broken messages in the queue.
1904 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1906 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1912 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1913 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1915 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1916 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1917 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1919 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1920 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1921 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1922 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1923 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1924 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1925 if one fails this test.
1926 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1927 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1929 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1930 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1932 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1933 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1935 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1936 in rewrites and routers.
1938 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1939 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1941 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1942 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1944 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1946 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1949 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1950 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1951 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1952 connection after a verify cache hit.
1953 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1955 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1956 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1958 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1959 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1960 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1961 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1962 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1964 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1965 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1967 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1968 Previously they were not counted.
1970 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1971 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1972 that needed the lookup.
1974 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1975 distinguished as "(=".
1977 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1978 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1980 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1982 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1983 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1985 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1986 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1988 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1989 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1992 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1993 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1994 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1995 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1997 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1999 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2000 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
2001 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
2003 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
2004 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
2005 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
2008 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
2009 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
2010 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
2013 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
2014 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
2015 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
2017 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
2018 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
2021 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
2023 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
2024 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
2026 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
2027 are not in the system include path.
2029 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
2030 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
2031 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
2032 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
2034 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
2035 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
2036 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
2038 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
2040 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
2041 an incoming connection.
2043 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
2046 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
2047 fallback to "prime256v1".
2049 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
2050 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
2056 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
2057 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
2058 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
2059 client dropping the TLS connection.
2061 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
2062 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
2064 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
2065 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
2066 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
2067 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
2070 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
2071 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
2072 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
2073 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
2074 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
2075 check on the next write.
2077 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
2078 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
2079 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
2080 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
2081 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
2083 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
2084 mime_regex ACL conditions.
2086 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
2087 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
2088 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
2090 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
2091 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
2092 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
2093 an authenticate fail is not an error.
2095 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
2096 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
2098 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
2099 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
2101 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
2102 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
2103 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
2106 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
2108 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
2110 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
2112 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
2113 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
2115 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
2116 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
2118 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
2120 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
2121 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
2123 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
2125 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
2126 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
2128 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
2130 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
2131 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
2132 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
2133 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
2134 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
2135 they will retry in-clear.
2136 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
2137 at installation time.
2139 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
2140 with the $config_file variable.
2142 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
2143 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
2144 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
2145 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
2146 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
2148 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
2149 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
2150 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
2151 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
2152 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
2154 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
2156 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
2157 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
2158 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
2159 list order is no longer honoured.
2161 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
2162 for DKIM processing.
2164 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2165 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
2167 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2168 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
2169 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
2170 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
2172 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
2173 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
2175 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
2176 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
2178 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
2179 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
2181 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
2183 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
2184 cached by the daemon.
2186 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2187 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
2189 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
2190 keys are given for lookup.
2192 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
2193 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
2194 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
2195 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
2197 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
2198 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
2199 server-side so match that on older versions.
2201 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
2202 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
2203 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
2205 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
2206 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
2208 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
2209 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
2210 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
2211 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
2212 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
2213 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
2214 initial truncated version.
2216 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
2218 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
2220 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
2221 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
2223 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
2225 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
2227 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
2228 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
2231 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
2232 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
2235 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
2236 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
2238 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
2239 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
2242 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
2243 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
2244 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
2246 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
2247 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
2248 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
2249 extraction. Accept either.
2255 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
2258 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
2260 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
2263 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
2264 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
2265 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
2266 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
2268 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
2269 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
2270 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
2272 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
2273 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
2274 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
2277 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
2280 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
2281 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
2282 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
2283 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
2284 have a dsn_lasthop option.
2286 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
2287 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
2288 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
2290 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
2292 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
2293 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
2295 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
2296 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
2298 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
2301 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
2302 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
2304 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
2305 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
2306 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
2308 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2309 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
2310 specify a port-range.
2312 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
2313 timeout value per server.
2315 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
2316 now have the list separator specified.
2318 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
2321 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
2324 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
2326 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
2327 rather than the verbs used.
2329 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
2330 from 255 to 1024 chars.
2332 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
2334 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
2335 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
2337 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
2338 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
2340 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
2341 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
2343 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
2345 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
2347 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
2348 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
2349 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
2350 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
2352 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
2354 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
2355 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
2357 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
2358 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
2360 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
2362 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
2364 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
2366 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
2367 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
2369 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
2370 added for tls authenticator.
2372 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
2378 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
2379 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
2380 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
2381 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
2382 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
2383 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
2384 the script parsing/test process like normal.
2386 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2387 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2388 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2389 function when detected.
2391 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2392 cause callback expansion.
2394 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2395 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2396 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2397 instead of bool when processing it.
2399 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2400 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2402 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2404 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2406 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2408 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2409 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2411 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2412 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2413 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2414 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2415 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2416 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2418 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2419 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2422 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2423 version 3.3.6 or later.
2425 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2426 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2427 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2428 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2429 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2430 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2433 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2434 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2436 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2437 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2438 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2441 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2442 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2443 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2445 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2446 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2448 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2449 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2452 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2454 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2455 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2457 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2458 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2461 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2463 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2466 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2467 output list separator was used.
2472 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2473 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2476 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2477 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2479 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2481 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2482 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2488 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2490 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2491 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2492 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2493 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2494 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2495 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2497 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2498 utilities have not been installed.
2500 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2501 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2503 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2504 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2506 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2507 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2508 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2509 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2511 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2513 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2514 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2516 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2519 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2521 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2522 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2523 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2525 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2526 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2527 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2528 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2529 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2530 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2532 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2534 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2535 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2537 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2540 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2542 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2544 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2545 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2547 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2548 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2550 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2552 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2554 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2555 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2557 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2558 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2559 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2561 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2562 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2563 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2566 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2568 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2569 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2572 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2573 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2576 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2577 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2579 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2580 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2582 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2584 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2585 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2586 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2588 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2589 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2591 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2592 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2595 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2596 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2597 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2599 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2601 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2602 Christian Aistleitner.
2604 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2606 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2607 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2609 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2610 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2612 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2613 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2615 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2616 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2618 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2619 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2621 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2622 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2623 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2625 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2627 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2628 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2631 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2633 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2634 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2641 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2643 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2644 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2646 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2649 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2650 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2653 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2655 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2656 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2657 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2658 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2659 using channel bindings instead).
2661 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2662 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2663 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2664 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2665 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2668 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2670 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2672 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2673 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2675 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2676 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2677 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2679 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2681 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2683 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2684 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2686 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2688 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2690 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2692 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2693 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2695 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2697 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2698 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2701 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2702 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2704 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2705 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2708 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2710 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2712 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2713 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2715 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2718 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2719 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2721 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2722 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2724 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2726 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2728 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2731 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2734 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2736 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2737 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2738 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2739 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2741 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2743 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2744 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2745 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2746 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2749 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2750 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2751 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2753 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2754 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2755 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2756 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2758 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2759 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2760 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2761 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2762 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2763 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2764 delivery, as in LMTP.
2766 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2767 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2769 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2771 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2775 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2776 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2777 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2778 username as equal to the username.
2780 This change corrects that bug.
2782 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2783 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2784 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2786 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2788 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2789 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2790 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2791 NULL dereference and crash.
2793 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2795 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2796 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2797 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2799 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2801 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2802 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2803 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2804 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2805 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2806 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2807 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2808 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2809 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2810 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2811 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2813 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2814 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2816 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2817 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2820 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2821 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2822 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2823 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2824 an empty string is now equivalent.
2826 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2827 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2828 not performing validation itself.
2830 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2831 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2833 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2836 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2838 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2839 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2840 other false fix of the same issue.
2841 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2844 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2845 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2847 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2848 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2849 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2851 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2852 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2853 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2855 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2857 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2859 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2860 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2862 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2865 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2866 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2867 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2868 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2869 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2871 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2872 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2874 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2875 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2878 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2879 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2880 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2881 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2883 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2885 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2886 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2887 from multiple comments on this bug.
2889 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2891 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2892 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2895 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2896 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2898 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2899 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2905 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2907 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2913 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2914 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2915 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2917 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2919 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2922 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2924 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2926 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2928 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2929 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2931 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2932 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2934 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2935 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2937 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2938 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2939 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2941 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2943 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2944 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2946 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2948 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2950 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2951 non-compliant senders.
2952 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2954 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2955 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2956 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2958 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2959 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2960 in spool file corruption.
2962 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2963 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2964 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2967 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2968 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2969 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2971 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2972 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2974 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2976 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2978 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2980 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2981 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2982 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2984 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2985 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2986 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2987 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2989 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2990 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2992 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2993 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2994 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2995 resolver implementation change.
2997 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2998 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
3000 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
3002 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
3004 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
3005 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
3007 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
3008 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
3010 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
3011 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
3013 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
3014 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
3015 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
3016 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
3017 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
3019 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3021 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
3022 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
3023 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
3025 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
3027 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
3028 read-only, out of scope).
3029 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
3031 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
3032 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
3033 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
3034 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
3036 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
3038 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
3039 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
3040 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
3041 real issues in debug logging.
3043 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
3044 assignment on my part. Fixed.
3046 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
3047 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
3048 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
3050 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
3051 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
3052 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
3055 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
3056 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
3058 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
3059 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
3060 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
3061 needs to override this, it can.
3063 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
3064 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
3065 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3067 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
3068 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
3069 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
3070 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
3072 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
3078 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
3079 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
3081 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
3083 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
3086 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
3087 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
3089 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
3090 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
3091 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
3093 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
3094 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
3095 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
3096 not safe for signals.
3098 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
3099 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
3100 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
3101 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
3104 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
3106 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
3107 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
3108 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
3109 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
3110 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
3112 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
3113 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
3114 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
3115 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
3116 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
3117 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
3119 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
3120 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
3121 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
3122 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
3124 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
3125 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
3126 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
3127 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
3129 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
3130 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
3131 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
3132 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
3133 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
3134 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
3135 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
3136 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
3137 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
3139 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
3140 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
3141 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
3142 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
3144 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
3145 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
3146 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
3147 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
3148 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
3149 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
3150 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
3151 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
3152 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
3153 details in the main documentation.
3155 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
3157 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
3159 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
3160 repository when doing development or release builds.
3162 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
3163 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
3165 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
3166 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
3169 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
3171 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
3172 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
3174 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
3175 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3177 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
3178 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3180 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
3181 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
3183 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
3184 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3186 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
3188 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
3191 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
3192 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
3193 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
3195 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
3197 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
3199 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
3200 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
3206 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
3208 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
3209 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
3211 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
3213 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
3215 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
3218 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
3219 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
3221 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
3222 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
3224 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
3225 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
3227 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
3230 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
3231 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
3233 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
3234 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
3235 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
3236 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
3238 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
3239 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
3245 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
3248 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
3249 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
3250 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
3252 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
3253 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
3255 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
3256 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
3257 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
3259 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
3260 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
3262 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
3263 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
3265 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
3266 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
3268 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
3269 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
3271 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
3272 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
3274 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
3277 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
3278 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
3280 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
3281 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
3283 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
3284 SQL string expansion failure details.
3285 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
3287 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
3288 Patch from Simon Arlott.
3290 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
3291 extern declarations in function scope.
3292 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
3294 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
3295 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
3296 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
3299 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
3300 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3302 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
3303 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3305 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
3306 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3308 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
3309 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
3311 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
3312 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
3315 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
3317 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
3319 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
3320 Patch by Simon Arlott
3322 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
3323 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
3329 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
3330 consequences so log it to the panic log.
3332 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
3333 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
3335 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
3337 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
3338 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
3339 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
3341 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
3342 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
3343 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
3345 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
3346 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
3347 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
3348 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
3350 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
3351 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
3352 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
3353 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
3355 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
3356 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
3357 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
3360 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
3363 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
3364 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
3365 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
3366 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
3367 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
3373 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
3374 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
3375 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
3377 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
3378 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
3380 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
3382 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
3384 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
3386 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3388 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3390 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3391 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3392 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3393 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3395 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3396 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3397 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3398 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3399 more caution in buffer sizes.
3401 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3403 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3405 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3407 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3409 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3411 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3413 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3415 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3416 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3417 ignore trailing whitespace.
3419 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3421 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3424 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3425 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3427 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3428 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3429 Notification from John Horne.
3431 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3434 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3435 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3438 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3441 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3442 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3443 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3445 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3446 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3447 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3450 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3451 option (effectively making it always true).
3453 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3454 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3456 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3457 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3459 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3460 run-time user, instead of root.
3462 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3463 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3465 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3466 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3469 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3470 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3471 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3473 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3475 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3481 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3482 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3485 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3486 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3489 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3490 Patch from Alain Williams
3492 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3494 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3495 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3497 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3498 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3500 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3502 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3504 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3505 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3507 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3509 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3511 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3512 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3513 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3515 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3516 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3518 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3519 Patch by Simon Arlott
3521 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3522 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3528 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3530 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3532 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3534 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3536 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3542 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3543 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3545 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3546 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3549 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3550 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3551 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3553 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3554 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3556 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3557 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3558 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3559 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3561 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3562 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3563 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3565 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3567 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3569 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3570 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3572 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3574 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3575 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3576 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3577 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3579 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3580 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3582 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3584 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3586 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3587 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3589 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3590 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3592 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3593 that they are available at delivery time.
3595 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3597 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3598 incoming_port log selectors.
3600 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3601 setting expands to an empty string.
3603 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3604 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3606 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3607 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3609 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3610 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3612 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3613 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3615 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3616 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3618 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3619 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3621 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3623 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3624 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3626 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3627 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3629 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3631 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3632 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3634 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3636 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3638 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3641 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3642 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3644 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3645 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3647 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3648 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3650 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3651 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3653 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3654 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3656 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3657 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3659 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3660 plus update to original patch.
3662 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3664 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3665 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3667 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3669 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3671 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3673 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3675 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3676 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3678 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3679 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3681 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3682 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3684 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3685 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3687 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3689 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3691 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3693 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3699 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3700 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3701 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3703 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3704 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3705 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3706 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3707 build errors in sieve.c.
3709 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3710 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3711 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3713 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3715 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3717 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3719 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3725 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3727 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3728 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3729 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3730 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3731 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3732 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3733 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3734 for iplsearch lookups.
3736 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3737 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3738 previously such lookups could never work.
3740 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3741 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3742 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3744 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3747 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3748 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3749 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3750 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3751 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3752 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3754 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3755 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3757 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3758 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3759 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3760 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3761 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3762 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3764 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3767 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3769 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3770 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3773 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3774 by clients under certain conditions.
3776 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3777 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3779 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3781 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3782 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3784 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3786 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3788 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3790 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3791 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3793 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3795 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3796 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3798 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3800 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3802 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3803 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3804 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3805 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3807 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3808 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3809 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3811 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3812 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3814 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3816 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3818 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3820 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3821 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3822 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3828 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3829 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3832 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3833 issue a MAIL command.
3835 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3837 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3839 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3840 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3841 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3842 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3843 item. This has been fixed.
3845 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3846 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3848 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3849 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3851 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3852 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3853 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3855 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3857 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3858 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3859 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3860 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3861 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3863 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3864 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3865 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3867 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3868 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3869 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3870 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3872 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3874 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3876 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3877 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3878 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3879 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3880 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3882 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3884 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3885 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3886 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3889 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3891 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3893 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3895 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3897 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3899 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3900 no_callout_flush is set.
3902 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3903 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3904 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3907 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3909 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3910 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3911 other ACL rejections are.
3913 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3914 with slight modification.
3916 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3917 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3919 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3920 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3923 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3924 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3926 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3928 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3929 expansion side effects.
3931 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3932 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3933 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3936 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3937 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3938 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3940 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3941 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3942 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3943 were accidentally chopped off.
3945 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3946 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3947 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3948 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3949 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3950 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3951 pipelining has not been advertised.
3953 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3955 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3956 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3957 This has been fixed.
3959 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3960 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3961 reported on Solaris.
3963 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3964 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3965 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3966 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3967 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3968 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3969 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3971 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3974 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3976 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3978 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3979 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3980 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3981 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3982 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3983 criteria to be more general.
3985 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3986 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3987 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3988 host_all_ignored option.
3990 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3991 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3992 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3993 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3994 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3995 is what is supposed to happen).
3997 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3998 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3999 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
4000 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
4001 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
4004 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
4005 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
4006 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
4007 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
4008 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
4009 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
4012 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4014 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
4015 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
4017 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
4018 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
4020 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
4022 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4024 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
4025 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
4026 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
4027 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
4028 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
4029 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
4030 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
4031 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
4032 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
4033 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
4034 least in a lot of common cases.
4036 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
4037 advertised in response to EHLO.
4043 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
4044 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
4046 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
4047 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
4049 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
4050 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
4051 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
4053 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
4054 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
4055 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
4056 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
4057 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
4063 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
4064 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
4067 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
4068 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
4069 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
4071 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
4072 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
4073 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
4074 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
4075 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
4076 rather than extend the field.
4082 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
4083 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
4084 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
4085 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
4088 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
4089 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
4090 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
4092 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
4093 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
4094 hence the _LINUX specificness.
4096 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
4097 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
4098 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
4101 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
4102 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
4103 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
4104 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
4105 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
4106 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
4107 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
4108 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
4109 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
4110 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
4111 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
4113 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
4116 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
4117 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
4118 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
4119 ignores EPIPE as well.
4121 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
4122 (quoted-printable decoding).
4124 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
4125 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
4127 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
4129 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
4131 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
4133 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
4134 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
4136 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
4139 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
4140 miscellaneous code fixes
4142 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
4145 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
4146 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
4147 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
4148 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
4149 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
4150 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
4151 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
4152 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
4154 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
4155 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
4156 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
4157 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
4159 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
4160 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
4161 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
4162 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
4163 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
4164 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
4165 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
4166 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
4167 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
4169 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
4172 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
4173 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
4174 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
4175 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
4176 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
4177 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
4178 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
4179 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
4181 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
4182 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
4185 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
4186 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
4187 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
4188 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
4189 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
4190 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
4191 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
4192 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
4193 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
4194 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
4195 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
4196 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
4197 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
4199 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
4200 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
4201 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
4202 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
4203 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
4204 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
4205 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
4207 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
4208 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
4209 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
4210 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
4211 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
4212 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
4213 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
4214 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
4215 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
4216 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
4218 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
4219 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
4220 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
4221 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
4222 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
4224 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
4225 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
4226 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
4227 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
4228 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
4229 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
4230 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
4232 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
4233 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
4234 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
4235 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
4236 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
4237 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
4240 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
4241 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
4242 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
4245 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
4246 if any retry times were supplied.
4248 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
4249 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
4250 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
4252 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
4254 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
4256 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
4257 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
4258 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
4259 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
4260 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
4261 before) are ignored.
4263 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
4264 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
4266 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
4267 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
4268 committing the later change.]
4270 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
4271 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
4272 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
4273 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
4274 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
4275 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
4276 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
4277 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
4278 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
4280 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
4281 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
4282 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
4283 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
4284 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
4285 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
4286 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
4287 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
4288 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
4290 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
4291 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
4292 hammering the server.
4294 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
4295 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
4297 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
4299 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
4300 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
4301 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
4303 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
4304 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
4305 one case where this was not true.
4307 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
4308 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
4309 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
4310 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
4313 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
4314 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
4315 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
4316 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4317 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
4318 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
4319 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
4320 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
4321 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
4324 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
4325 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
4326 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
4327 same for both kinds of LMTP.
4329 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
4330 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
4332 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
4333 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
4334 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
4336 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
4338 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
4340 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
4342 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
4343 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
4344 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
4345 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
4347 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
4348 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
4350 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
4351 be meaningful with "accept".
4353 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
4354 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
4356 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
4357 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
4358 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4360 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
4361 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
4362 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
4363 there is data to show.
4364 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
4366 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
4367 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
4368 as well as the number of messages.
4370 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
4371 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
4372 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
4374 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
4375 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
4376 have a flag are now skipped.
4378 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
4379 Added the -emptyok flag.
4381 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
4382 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
4384 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
4385 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4386 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4388 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4391 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4392 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4394 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4396 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4397 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4399 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4401 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4402 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4403 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4404 contravention of the specifications.
4406 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4407 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4408 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4410 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4411 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4412 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4414 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4416 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4417 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4418 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4419 some point in the past.
4421 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4422 transport during callout processing was broken.
4424 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4425 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4427 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4428 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4430 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4431 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4433 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4439 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4440 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4442 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4443 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4444 there is data to show.
4445 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4447 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4448 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4450 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4451 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4453 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4454 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4456 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4457 submissions from trusted users.
4459 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4460 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4462 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4463 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4464 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4465 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4466 there is now a framework to start from.
4468 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4469 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4470 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4472 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4474 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4476 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4478 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4479 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4480 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4482 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4485 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4486 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4487 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4489 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4490 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4491 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4494 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4495 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4496 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4497 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4498 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4500 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4501 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4503 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4505 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4506 operations in malware.c.
4508 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4511 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4512 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4513 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4516 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4517 statements to "add_header".
4519 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4520 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4522 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4523 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4526 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4530 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4531 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4532 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4535 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4536 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4538 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4539 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4541 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4542 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4543 any possible encoding problems.
4545 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4546 but not after initializing Perl.
4548 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4549 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4550 apparently, which is not desirable.
4552 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4555 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4558 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4560 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4561 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4562 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4563 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4565 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4566 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4567 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4569 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4570 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4571 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4574 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4575 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4576 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4577 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4578 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4584 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4585 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4587 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4590 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4591 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4592 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4593 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4594 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4595 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4596 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4597 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4600 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4602 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4603 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4604 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4606 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4607 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4608 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4611 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4612 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4614 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4615 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4616 option (which defaults to 0600).
4618 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4620 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4621 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4622 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4623 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4624 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4625 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4626 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4628 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4634 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4635 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4636 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4637 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4638 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4639 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4642 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4643 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4645 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4647 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4648 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4649 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4650 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4651 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4654 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4655 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4657 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4658 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4659 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4660 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4661 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4663 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4664 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4665 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4666 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4668 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4669 be the same on different OS.
4671 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4674 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4675 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4677 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4680 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4681 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4682 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4683 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4684 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4685 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4688 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4689 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4690 when Exim was called.
4692 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4693 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4695 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4696 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4697 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4698 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4700 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4701 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4702 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4703 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4706 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4707 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4708 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4710 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4711 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4712 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4714 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4717 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4718 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4719 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4720 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4721 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4722 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4723 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4724 values from the SRV records were lost.
4726 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4727 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4728 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4730 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4731 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4732 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4734 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4735 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4736 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4737 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4738 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4739 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4740 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4741 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4742 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4743 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4745 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4746 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4747 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4749 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4750 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4752 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4753 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4754 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4755 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4758 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4759 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4760 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4762 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4763 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4764 PH/23 above applies.
4766 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4767 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4768 (for which there is an explicit test).
4770 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4772 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4773 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4774 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4775 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4776 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4778 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4779 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4780 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4781 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4783 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4784 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4785 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4787 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4789 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4791 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4792 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4793 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4795 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4796 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4797 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4798 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4799 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4801 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4802 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4803 the message gets confusing).
4805 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4806 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4807 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4808 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4810 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4811 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4812 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4813 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4816 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4817 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4818 the different processes.
4820 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4822 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4824 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4825 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4827 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4828 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4830 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4831 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4832 messages matching specified criteria.
4834 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4836 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4837 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4839 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4840 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4841 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4842 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4843 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4844 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4845 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4846 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4847 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4848 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4850 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4851 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4852 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4854 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4856 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4857 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4858 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4859 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4860 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4861 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4862 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4865 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4866 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4868 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4870 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4872 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4874 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4875 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4876 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4877 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4878 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4879 size of the count of files.
4881 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4883 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4886 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4887 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4888 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4889 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4891 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4892 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4893 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4895 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4896 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4897 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4898 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4899 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4901 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4902 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4904 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4905 will now be deprecated.
4907 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4909 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4910 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4911 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4913 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4914 with very large, slow to parse queues
4916 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4918 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4920 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4921 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4922 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4925 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4926 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4927 Sieve code now uses this.
4929 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4930 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4932 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4933 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4935 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4937 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4938 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4939 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4940 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4941 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4943 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4944 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4945 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4946 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4948 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4950 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4952 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4953 is preferred over IPv4.
4955 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4956 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4957 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4958 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4959 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4960 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4961 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4963 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4964 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4965 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4967 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4969 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4970 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4971 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4972 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4973 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4974 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4975 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4976 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4977 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4978 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4979 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4981 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4982 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4983 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4989 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4991 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4992 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4994 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4995 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4996 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4998 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
5000 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
5003 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
5006 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
5007 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
5008 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
5011 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
5012 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
5014 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
5015 inside the third argument.
5017 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
5018 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
5021 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
5022 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
5024 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
5025 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
5027 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
5029 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
5030 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
5033 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
5035 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
5036 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
5037 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
5038 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
5039 identical. For example:
5041 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
5043 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
5044 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
5045 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
5047 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
5048 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
5049 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
5050 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
5052 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
5053 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
5054 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
5057 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
5059 o fixes some comments
5060 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
5061 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
5062 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
5063 and documents the missing references header update
5067 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
5068 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
5071 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
5072 Electronic Mail") by including:
5074 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
5076 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
5077 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
5078 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
5079 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
5080 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
5082 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5084 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
5086 The auto-replied keyword:
5088 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
5089 message by an automatic process,
5091 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
5093 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
5094 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
5096 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
5097 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
5100 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
5101 to the default Received: header definition.
5103 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
5105 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
5106 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
5107 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
5109 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
5110 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
5111 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
5113 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
5114 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
5115 and treats the condition as false.
5117 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
5119 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
5120 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
5121 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
5122 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
5123 not changing the active code.
5125 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
5126 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
5128 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
5129 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
5131 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
5134 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
5135 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
5136 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
5137 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
5138 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
5139 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
5140 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
5141 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
5142 the text comparison.
5144 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
5145 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
5146 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
5147 The same fix has been applied.
5153 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
5154 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
5157 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
5158 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
5160 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
5162 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
5163 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
5164 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
5165 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
5166 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
5168 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
5169 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
5170 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
5171 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
5174 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
5182 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
5183 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
5185 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
5187 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
5189 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
5190 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
5191 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
5193 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
5194 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
5195 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
5197 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
5198 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
5201 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
5202 ${stat: expansion item.
5204 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
5205 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
5207 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
5208 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
5211 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5213 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
5216 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
5217 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
5219 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
5221 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
5222 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
5223 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
5224 the end of the subprocess.
5226 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
5227 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
5228 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
5229 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
5230 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
5232 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
5234 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
5236 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
5237 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
5239 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
5241 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
5243 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
5244 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
5247 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
5249 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
5250 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
5251 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
5253 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
5254 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
5256 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
5257 host errors such as "Connection refused".
5259 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
5260 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
5262 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
5263 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
5265 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
5266 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
5267 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
5268 contributed by a Radius user.
5270 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
5271 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
5273 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
5274 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
5276 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
5279 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
5280 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
5283 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
5284 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
5285 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
5286 header lines when this was not necessary.
5288 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
5290 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
5291 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
5292 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
5295 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
5298 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
5299 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
5300 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
5301 return code was incorrect.
5303 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
5305 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
5307 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
5309 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
5311 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
5312 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
5313 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
5314 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
5315 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
5318 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
5320 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
5321 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
5322 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
5323 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
5324 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
5325 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
5326 which is clearly wrong.
5328 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
5330 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
5331 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
5332 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
5335 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
5336 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
5338 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
5340 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
5341 the "build-* directories that it finds.
5343 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
5344 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
5346 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
5347 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
5349 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
5350 recipients, not senders.
5352 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
5353 the ratelimit ACL was added.
5355 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
5357 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
5359 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
5360 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
5361 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
5362 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
5364 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
5366 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
5367 clock is set back in time.
5369 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
5370 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
5372 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
5373 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
5375 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
5376 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
5379 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
5380 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
5383 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
5386 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5388 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5389 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5390 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5392 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5393 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5394 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5395 helo verification defer as a failure.
5397 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5398 actual error message.
5404 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5406 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5407 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5408 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5409 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5411 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5413 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5414 can still be requested.
5416 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5417 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5418 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5419 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5421 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5422 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5423 circumstances, but probably never did.
5425 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5426 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5427 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5430 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5432 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5433 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5435 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5437 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5439 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5440 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5441 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5442 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5443 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5444 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5446 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5447 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5448 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5449 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5450 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5451 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5453 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5454 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5456 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5457 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5459 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5460 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5462 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5464 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5466 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5468 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5470 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5472 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5474 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5476 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5477 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5478 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5480 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5481 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5482 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5483 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5485 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5486 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5487 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5489 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5490 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5491 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5492 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5494 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5495 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5498 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5499 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5500 should work with maildirs and everything.
5502 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5503 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5505 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5508 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5509 function for BDB 4.3.
5511 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5513 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5514 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5517 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5518 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5519 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5520 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5521 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5522 formatting function string_vformat().
5524 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5525 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5526 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5527 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5528 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5529 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5530 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5531 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5533 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5534 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5537 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5538 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5540 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5541 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5542 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5543 test. It is now used for both.
5545 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5546 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5547 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5548 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5549 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5550 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5552 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5553 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5554 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5557 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5558 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5559 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5561 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5562 experimental DomainKeys support:
5564 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5565 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5566 the control was given.
5568 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5570 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5572 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5574 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5575 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5576 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5579 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5580 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5581 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5582 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5583 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5584 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5587 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5588 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5589 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5590 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5591 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5592 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5594 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5595 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5596 do -d+all out of habit.
5598 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5599 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5602 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5603 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5604 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5605 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5606 record types that Exim uses.
5608 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5609 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5610 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5611 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5612 non-existent file that was broken.
5614 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5615 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5617 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5618 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5619 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5621 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5623 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5624 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5625 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5626 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5627 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5630 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5631 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5632 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5633 at a slight CPU cost.
5635 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5636 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5638 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5641 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5643 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5644 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5650 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5651 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5653 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5655 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5657 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5658 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5660 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5661 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5662 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5663 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5664 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5665 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5668 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5669 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5670 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5671 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5674 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5675 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5676 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5677 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5678 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5679 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5680 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5683 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5684 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5686 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5687 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5688 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5689 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5690 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5691 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5693 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5694 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5695 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5696 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5698 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5701 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5702 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5704 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5705 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5706 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5707 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5710 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5712 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5713 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5715 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5716 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5717 to what was transported.)
5719 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5721 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5722 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5723 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5724 spamd_address settings.
5726 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5727 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5728 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5729 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5730 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5732 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5734 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5735 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5736 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5737 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5738 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5740 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5741 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5743 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5744 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5745 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5746 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5747 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5748 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5749 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5752 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5753 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5754 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5755 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5756 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5757 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5758 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5761 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5763 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5764 driver and ACL definitions.
5766 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5767 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5769 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5770 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5771 understands it better than I do:
5773 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5774 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5776 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5777 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5778 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5779 => three warnings about OTP not working
5780 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5782 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5783 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5784 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5785 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5787 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5788 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5790 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5791 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5792 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5794 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5795 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5798 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5799 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5802 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5803 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5804 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5806 warn !verify = sender
5807 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5809 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5810 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5812 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5814 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5815 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5817 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5818 nomenclature these days.)
5820 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5821 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5823 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5824 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5825 . First host does not offer TLS;
5826 . First host accepts first address;
5827 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5828 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5829 . Second host accepts second address.
5830 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5831 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5834 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5835 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5836 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5837 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5838 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5840 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5841 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5843 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5844 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5846 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5847 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5848 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5850 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5851 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5854 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5856 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5857 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5858 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5859 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5860 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5861 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5862 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5864 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5865 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5866 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5867 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5868 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5870 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5871 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5874 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5875 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5876 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5877 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5878 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5879 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5881 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5883 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5884 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5885 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5886 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5887 printable escape sequences.
5889 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5890 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5893 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5894 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5897 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5898 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5899 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5900 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5901 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5903 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5904 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5905 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5907 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5909 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5910 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5913 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5914 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5915 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5916 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5917 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5918 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5919 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5920 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5921 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5924 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5925 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5926 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5927 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5931 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5932 ----------------------------------------
5934 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5935 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5936 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5937 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5938 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5939 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5942 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5943 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5944 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5945 historical information.
5951 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5953 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5954 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5956 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5957 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5960 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5961 filter fails to execute.
5963 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5964 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5965 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5966 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5967 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5969 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5971 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5972 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5973 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5974 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5976 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5977 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5978 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5979 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5980 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5982 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5984 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5986 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5987 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5988 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5989 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5991 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5992 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5993 sender verification.
5995 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5996 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5998 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
6000 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
6003 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6004 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6006 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6007 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6009 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
6010 information about exactly what failed.
6012 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
6014 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
6015 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
6016 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
6018 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
6019 It is now set to "smtps".
6021 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6022 ignore_target_hosts.
6024 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6025 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6026 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6027 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6030 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6031 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6032 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6034 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6035 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6036 wake it up if nothing else does.
6038 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6039 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6040 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6043 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6044 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6046 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
6048 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
6049 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
6050 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
6051 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
6052 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
6053 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
6054 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
6055 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
6057 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
6058 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
6059 than one IP address.
6061 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
6062 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
6063 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
6064 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
6066 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6067 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6068 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6069 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6070 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6073 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
6074 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
6075 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
6076 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
6078 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6079 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6082 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6083 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6084 $sender_host_address.
6086 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
6087 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
6088 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
6089 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
6090 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
6093 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
6095 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
6096 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
6098 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
6099 just the host names, not the priorities.
6101 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
6102 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
6103 controlled by a keyword.
6105 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
6106 multiple records are returned.
6108 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
6109 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
6112 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
6114 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
6115 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
6117 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6118 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6119 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6121 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
6123 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
6125 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
6127 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6128 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6129 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6130 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6131 because the tests only now provoked it.
6133 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6134 (this can affect the format of dates).
6136 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6137 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6138 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6139 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6141 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
6143 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6144 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6145 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6146 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6148 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6149 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6150 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6152 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6155 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6156 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6157 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6158 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6159 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6160 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6163 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
6164 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
6165 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
6168 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
6169 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
6170 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
6172 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
6173 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
6174 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
6175 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
6176 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
6177 so I produce this patch..."
6179 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
6180 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
6183 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6184 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6185 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6186 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6189 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
6191 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
6192 long debug lines gets shown.
6194 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
6195 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
6197 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
6199 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
6200 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
6201 of $primary_hostname.
6203 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6204 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6205 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6206 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6207 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6208 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6209 by change 4.50/55 above.
6211 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6212 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6213 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6214 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6215 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6216 running as the user.
6219 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6220 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6221 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6224 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
6225 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
6227 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6228 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6229 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6230 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6231 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6233 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
6234 This has been fixed.
6236 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6237 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6238 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6239 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6242 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
6244 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
6245 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
6246 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
6247 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
6249 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
6250 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
6252 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
6253 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
6254 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
6256 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
6257 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
6258 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
6261 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
6262 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
6263 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
6265 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
6266 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
6267 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
6268 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
6270 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
6271 during host lookups.
6273 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
6274 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
6276 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
6278 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
6279 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
6280 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
6281 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
6282 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
6285 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
6286 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
6288 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
6289 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
6290 for the non-SMTP ACL.
6292 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
6294 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
6295 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
6296 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
6297 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
6298 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
6299 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
6302 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
6303 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
6304 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
6305 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
6306 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
6308 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
6311 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
6313 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
6314 "vacation" handling.
6316 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
6317 OS variants using glibc.
6319 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
6322 ----------------------------------------------------
6323 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
6324 ----------------------------------------------------
6330 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
6331 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
6334 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6335 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6338 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6339 filter fails to execute.
6341 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6342 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6343 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6344 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6345 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6347 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6348 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6349 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6350 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6352 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6353 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6354 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6355 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6356 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6358 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6360 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6361 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6362 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6363 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6365 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6366 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6367 sender verification.
6369 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6370 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6372 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6373 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6375 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6376 ignore_target_hosts.
6378 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6379 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6380 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6381 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6384 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6385 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6386 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6388 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6389 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6390 wake it up if nothing else does.
6392 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6393 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6394 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6397 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6398 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6400 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6402 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6403 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6406 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6407 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6410 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6411 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6412 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6413 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6414 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6417 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6418 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6421 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6422 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6423 $sender_host_address.
6425 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6427 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6428 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6429 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6431 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6434 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6435 (this can affect the format of dates).
6437 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6438 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6439 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6440 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6442 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6443 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6444 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6446 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6447 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6448 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6449 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6451 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6452 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6453 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6455 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6458 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6459 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6460 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6461 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6462 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6463 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6466 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6467 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6468 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6469 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6472 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6473 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6474 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6475 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6476 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6477 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6478 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6480 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6481 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6482 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6483 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6484 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6485 running as the user.
6488 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6489 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6490 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6493 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6494 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6495 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6496 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6497 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6499 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6500 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6501 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6502 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6505 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6506 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6507 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6508 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6509 because the tests only now provoked it.
6515 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6516 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6517 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6518 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6519 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6520 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6521 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6523 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6524 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6527 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6529 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6531 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6532 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6535 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6536 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6537 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6538 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6539 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6541 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6542 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6544 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6546 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6548 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6551 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6552 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6554 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6555 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6556 affecting debugging statements).
6558 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6560 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6561 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6562 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6563 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6564 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6565 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6566 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6567 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6568 after the received time, and all would be well.
6570 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6571 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6572 condition in an expansion string.
6574 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6576 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6577 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6578 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6579 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6580 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6581 job under whatever limits there are.
6583 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6585 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6588 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6589 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6590 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6591 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6594 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6595 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6596 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6597 binary data in such strings.
6599 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6601 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6602 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6603 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6604 failure, which is pointless.
6606 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6608 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6610 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6611 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6612 Sender: header lines.
6614 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6615 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6616 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6618 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6619 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6620 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6621 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6622 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6625 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6626 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6627 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6628 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6629 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6631 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6632 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6633 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6636 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6637 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6639 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6640 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6642 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6644 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6646 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6648 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6651 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6653 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6655 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6656 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6657 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6658 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6660 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6661 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6667 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6668 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6669 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6671 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6672 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6673 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6674 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6675 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6676 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6678 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6679 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6680 verification failure".
6682 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6683 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6684 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6685 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6687 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6688 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6689 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6690 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6691 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6692 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6693 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6694 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6695 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6696 treated as a timeout.
6698 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6699 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6700 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6701 not set for Exim filters).
6703 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6704 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6705 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6707 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6709 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6710 try to make them clearer.
6712 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6713 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6715 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6717 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6719 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6720 only the Cygwin environment.
6722 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6723 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6724 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6725 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6726 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6728 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6729 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6730 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6731 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6732 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6733 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6734 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6736 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6737 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6739 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6741 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6742 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6743 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6745 To: susanne@some.where
6747 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6748 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6749 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6750 of addresses in From: header lines).
6752 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6753 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6754 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6756 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6757 treated as non-personal.
6759 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6760 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6762 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6764 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6766 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6767 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6768 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6770 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6771 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6773 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6774 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6775 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6776 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6777 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6778 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6780 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6781 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6782 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6783 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6784 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6785 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6786 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6787 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6789 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6791 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6792 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6794 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6795 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6796 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6798 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6799 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6801 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6802 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6803 rather than long int.
6805 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6807 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6813 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6814 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6815 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6816 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6817 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6818 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6824 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6825 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6827 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6828 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6829 socklen_t is defined.
6831 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6834 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6837 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6838 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6839 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6840 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6841 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6843 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6844 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6845 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6846 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6848 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6849 of flapping under certain conditions.
6851 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6852 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6853 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6855 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6857 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6859 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6860 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6861 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6862 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6864 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6865 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6866 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6867 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6868 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6869 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6870 preserved with the message after it was received.
6872 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6873 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6874 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6875 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6876 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6877 test suite worked just fine.
6879 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6880 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6881 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6883 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6884 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6887 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6888 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6889 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6890 does not fully solve it.
6892 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6893 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6894 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6895 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6896 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6898 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6899 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6900 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6902 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6903 string, for example:
6905 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6907 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6908 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6909 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6910 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6911 the routers could not see them.
6913 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6914 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6916 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6917 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6920 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6921 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6922 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6923 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6924 that needed quoting.
6926 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6927 was not being matched caselessly.
6929 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6932 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6933 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6934 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6935 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6936 when use_sender is false.
6938 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6940 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6942 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6944 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6945 the configuration file.
6947 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6948 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6950 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6952 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6953 bytes in the message body.
6955 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6956 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6959 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6961 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6963 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6964 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6965 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6966 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6973 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6974 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6976 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6977 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6978 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6979 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6980 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6982 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6983 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6985 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6986 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6987 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6989 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6990 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6991 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6993 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6996 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6997 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6998 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6999 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
7000 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
7001 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
7002 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
7008 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
7009 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
7010 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
7011 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
7012 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
7013 default (and expected) setting.
7015 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
7016 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
7017 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
7018 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
7020 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
7021 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
7023 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
7026 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
7027 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
7028 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
7029 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
7030 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
7031 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
7033 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
7034 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
7035 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
7037 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
7038 part (NOT match_host).
7040 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
7042 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
7043 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
7044 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
7045 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
7046 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
7047 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
7048 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
7049 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
7050 the same named file.
7052 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
7053 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
7056 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
7057 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
7058 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
7059 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
7062 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
7063 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
7064 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
7066 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
7068 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
7070 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
7072 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
7073 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
7075 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
7076 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
7077 before starting the TLS session.
7079 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
7081 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
7082 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
7084 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
7085 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
7086 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
7087 colon in the middle).
7093 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
7094 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
7095 multiple configurations are in use.
7097 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
7098 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
7099 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
7100 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
7101 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
7102 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
7104 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
7105 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
7107 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
7108 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
7109 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
7111 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
7112 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
7115 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
7116 that used bh_ and bheader_.
7118 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
7120 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
7121 allowing one more file than it should have been.
7123 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
7131 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
7132 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
7133 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
7134 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
7135 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
7137 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
7140 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
7141 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
7142 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
7143 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
7144 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
7145 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
7147 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
7148 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
7149 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
7150 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
7151 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
7152 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
7153 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
7156 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
7157 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
7158 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
7159 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
7160 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
7162 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
7164 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
7165 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
7166 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
7168 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
7170 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
7171 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
7172 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
7175 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
7176 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
7178 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
7179 Three changes have been made:
7181 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
7182 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
7183 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
7184 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
7185 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
7187 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
7190 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
7191 the modified behaviour.
7197 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
7200 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
7201 indeed breaks things for older releases.
7203 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
7204 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
7205 try to track down a specific problem.
7207 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
7208 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
7209 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
7211 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
7214 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
7215 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
7216 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
7217 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
7218 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
7219 some earlier ones do not.
7221 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
7223 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
7224 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
7225 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7226 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
7227 address literals are enabled, of course).
7229 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
7231 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
7232 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
7233 by a command such as
7237 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
7239 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
7241 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
7242 remained set. It is now erased.
7244 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
7245 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
7247 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
7248 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
7249 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
7250 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
7251 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
7252 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
7253 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
7254 appropriate error code.
7256 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
7257 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
7258 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
7259 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
7260 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
7261 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
7263 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
7264 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
7265 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
7267 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
7268 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
7269 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
7270 terminate the header.
7272 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
7273 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
7274 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
7276 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
7277 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
7278 (4.30/29). In particular:
7280 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
7283 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
7284 to write a maildirsize file.
7286 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
7287 the transport, the new value overrides.
7289 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
7292 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
7293 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
7294 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
7297 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
7298 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
7299 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
7302 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
7303 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
7304 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
7306 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
7307 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
7310 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
7311 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
7312 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
7314 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
7316 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
7318 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
7320 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
7321 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
7324 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
7325 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
7326 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
7327 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
7328 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
7329 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
7330 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
7333 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
7334 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
7335 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
7336 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
7337 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
7340 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
7341 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
7342 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
7343 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
7344 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
7345 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
7346 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
7347 cached value only when the same options are set.
7349 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
7351 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
7352 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
7353 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
7354 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
7355 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
7357 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
7358 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
7359 it is clearly obsolete.
7361 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
7364 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
7365 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
7366 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
7369 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
7370 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
7371 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
7372 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
7373 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
7375 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
7376 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
7377 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
7378 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
7380 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
7382 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
7384 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
7385 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7388 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7389 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7390 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7391 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7392 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7393 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7396 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7397 with the -f command-line option.
7399 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7400 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7401 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7402 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7403 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7404 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7406 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7407 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7410 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7411 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7412 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7413 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7414 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7415 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7416 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7417 buffer is too small.
7419 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7420 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7422 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7423 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7424 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7425 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7426 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7427 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7428 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7429 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7430 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7432 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7433 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7434 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7436 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7437 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7440 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7441 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7442 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7443 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7444 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7446 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7447 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7448 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7449 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7452 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7454 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7456 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7457 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7459 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7460 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7461 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7463 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7464 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7465 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7466 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7467 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7469 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7470 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7471 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7472 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7473 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7474 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7475 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7477 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7478 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7479 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7480 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7481 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7482 the test of how many are available.
7484 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7485 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7486 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7487 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7488 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7489 new message is started.
7491 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7492 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7494 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7495 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7497 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7498 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7499 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7502 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7503 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7504 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7505 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7506 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7507 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7508 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7510 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7511 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7512 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7513 interpreted as octal.
7515 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7518 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7519 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7520 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7521 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7522 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7523 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7525 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7526 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7527 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7528 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7530 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7531 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7532 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7533 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7535 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7536 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7539 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7540 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7542 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7544 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7545 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7546 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7547 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7549 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7550 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7551 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7552 supplied", which is not helpful.
7554 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7555 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7556 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7558 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7559 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7560 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7561 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7562 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7563 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7564 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7565 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7567 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7568 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7569 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7570 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7571 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7573 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7574 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7575 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7576 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7577 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7578 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7580 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7581 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7582 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7584 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7586 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7587 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7588 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7591 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7593 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7594 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7595 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7596 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7597 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7598 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7599 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7600 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7602 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7603 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7604 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7605 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7606 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7608 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7611 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7612 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7613 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7614 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7615 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7616 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7617 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7618 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7619 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7625 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7626 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7627 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7629 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7632 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7633 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7634 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7636 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7637 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7638 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7639 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7640 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7641 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7643 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7644 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7645 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7646 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7647 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7648 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7649 the Exim test suite.
7651 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7652 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7653 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7654 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7656 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7657 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7658 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7659 specify it in this variable.
7661 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7662 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7663 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7664 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7666 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7667 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7668 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7669 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7671 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7672 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7673 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7674 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7675 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7677 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7679 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7682 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7683 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7684 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7685 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7686 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7688 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7689 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7691 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7692 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7693 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7694 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7695 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7697 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7698 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7700 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7701 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7702 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7704 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7705 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7707 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7708 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7710 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7711 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7712 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7714 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7715 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7717 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7718 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7719 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7720 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7722 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7724 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7725 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7726 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7727 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7729 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7731 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7732 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7734 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7736 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7737 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7738 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7739 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7740 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7741 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7743 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7745 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7746 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7749 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7751 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7752 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7754 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7755 550 Sender verify failed
7757 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7758 the final line of the response.
7760 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7761 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7762 all other user lookups.
7764 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7767 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7768 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7769 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7770 result into an int without checking.
7772 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7773 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7774 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7776 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7777 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7778 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7779 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7781 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7784 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7785 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7787 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7788 to the empty sender.
7790 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7791 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7792 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7793 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7794 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7795 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7796 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7799 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7800 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7801 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7802 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7805 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7806 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7808 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7811 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7812 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7814 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7816 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7817 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7820 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7821 as soon as it is encountered.
7823 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7825 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7828 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7829 recognizes a tab character.
7831 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7832 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7833 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7834 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7836 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7838 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7841 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7843 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7845 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7846 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7849 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7850 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7851 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7852 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7853 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7855 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7856 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7858 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7859 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7860 list (.included file names were always shown).
7862 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7863 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7864 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7867 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7868 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7870 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7872 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7874 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7876 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7877 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7878 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7879 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7880 failures to open the logs.
7882 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7883 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7884 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7885 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7886 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7887 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7888 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7894 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7895 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7896 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7899 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7900 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7901 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7903 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7904 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7905 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7907 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7908 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7909 causing some misleading effects.
7911 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7912 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7913 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7915 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7916 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7917 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7918 queue-runner function directly.
7924 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7927 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7928 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7929 was always written to the default place.
7931 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7932 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7933 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7935 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7937 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7939 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7940 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7941 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7943 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7944 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7947 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7948 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7949 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7951 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7952 command line option is disabled.
7954 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7955 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7957 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7959 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7961 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7962 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7964 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7966 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7967 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7968 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7969 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7970 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7971 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7973 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7974 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7977 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7978 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7980 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7981 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7983 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7984 received was valid base64.
7986 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7987 name of the variable that was being set.
7989 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7991 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7992 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7993 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7994 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7995 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7996 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7998 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
8000 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
8001 nor realm was specified.
8003 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
8004 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
8005 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
8006 errors are given to SMTP connections.
8008 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
8009 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
8010 failing to send a response to QUIT.
8012 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
8013 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
8014 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
8016 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
8017 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
8018 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
8019 some systems use these upper case variants.
8021 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
8022 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
8023 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
8024 socket" when it tried to send the third.
8026 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
8028 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
8029 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
8031 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
8032 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
8035 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
8037 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
8038 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
8039 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
8040 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
8042 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
8045 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
8046 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
8047 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
8049 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
8050 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
8052 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
8053 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
8054 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
8055 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
8057 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
8058 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
8059 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
8061 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
8063 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
8064 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
8065 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
8066 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
8069 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
8070 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
8071 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
8073 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
8075 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
8076 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
8078 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
8079 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
8081 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
8082 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
8083 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
8084 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
8085 when emails are that large.
8092 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
8093 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
8095 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
8096 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
8097 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
8099 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
8100 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
8101 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
8103 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
8104 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
8105 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
8106 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
8107 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
8109 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
8110 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
8111 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
8112 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
8113 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
8116 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
8117 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
8118 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
8119 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
8120 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
8121 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
8122 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
8123 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
8124 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
8125 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
8126 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
8127 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
8128 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
8129 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
8131 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
8132 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
8135 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
8136 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
8137 error should be diagnosed.
8139 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
8140 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
8141 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
8142 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
8143 appeared instead of "NULL".
8145 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
8146 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
8147 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
8148 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
8149 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
8150 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
8153 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
8154 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
8155 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
8161 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
8162 or receiver verification errors.
8164 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
8167 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
8168 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
8169 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
8170 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
8172 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
8173 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
8174 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
8175 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
8176 shouldn't happen again.
8178 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
8179 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
8180 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
8182 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
8183 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
8185 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
8187 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
8188 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
8190 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
8191 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
8194 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
8195 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
8196 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
8198 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
8199 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
8200 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
8201 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
8203 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
8204 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
8205 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
8206 to define what should happen).
8208 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
8209 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
8210 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
8212 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
8214 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
8216 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
8217 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
8219 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
8220 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
8221 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
8222 structure in all cases.
8224 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
8225 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
8226 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
8227 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
8229 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
8230 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
8233 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
8234 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
8236 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
8237 MD5 (which is deprecated).
8239 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
8240 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
8241 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
8243 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
8244 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
8245 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
8247 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
8248 the book and for uniformity.
8250 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
8252 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
8253 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
8254 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
8255 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
8256 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
8257 non-existent command as the problem.
8259 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
8260 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
8261 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
8263 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
8265 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
8266 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
8267 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
8269 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
8270 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
8271 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
8272 timestamps using strftime().
8274 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
8275 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
8277 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
8278 transport-time rewrites.
8280 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
8281 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
8282 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
8283 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
8285 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
8286 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
8288 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
8289 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
8290 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
8291 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
8294 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
8295 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
8296 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
8297 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
8298 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
8299 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
8300 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
8302 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
8303 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
8304 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
8305 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
8306 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
8308 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
8309 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
8310 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
8311 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
8312 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
8313 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
8314 remaining text gets split now.
8316 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
8317 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
8318 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
8319 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
8321 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
8322 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
8323 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
8324 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
8327 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
8328 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
8329 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
8330 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
8331 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
8332 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
8333 passed through if needed.
8335 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
8336 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
8337 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
8338 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
8339 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
8340 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
8342 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
8343 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
8344 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
8345 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
8346 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
8348 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
8349 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
8350 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
8351 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
8352 incorrect size information for certain domains.
8354 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
8355 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
8358 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
8359 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
8360 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
8361 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
8362 mayhem of various kinds.
8364 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
8365 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
8366 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
8367 the right test for positive values.
8369 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
8370 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
8371 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
8372 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
8373 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
8374 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
8375 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
8376 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
8377 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
8378 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
8381 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
8384 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
8385 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8388 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8389 the existing equality matching.
8391 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8392 dealing with inode numbers.
8394 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8395 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8396 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8398 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8399 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8400 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8401 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8404 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8405 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8406 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8407 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8408 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8409 relay addresses has also been removed.
8411 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8413 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8414 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8415 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8417 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8418 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8419 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8420 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8421 processing applies to CR:
8423 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8424 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8426 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8427 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8428 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8429 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8431 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8432 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8433 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8435 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8436 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8437 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8438 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8439 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8440 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8443 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8446 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8447 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8448 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8449 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8452 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8454 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8456 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8458 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8459 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8460 not considered personal.
8462 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8464 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8466 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8468 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8469 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8470 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8471 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8472 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8473 header lines, and spool format errors.
8475 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8476 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8477 for more flexibility.
8479 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8480 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8481 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8483 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8486 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8487 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8488 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8489 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8490 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8491 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8492 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8493 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8494 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8496 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8497 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8498 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8499 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8500 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8501 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8502 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8504 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8505 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8506 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8508 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8509 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8510 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8511 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8512 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8513 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8514 instead of killing the process with assert().
8516 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8517 than Unicode encoding.
8519 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8520 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8521 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8522 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8524 77. Added process_log_path.
8526 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8527 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8529 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8530 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8532 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8533 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8534 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8536 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8537 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8538 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8539 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8540 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8543 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8544 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8547 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8548 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8549 they will be used during message reception.
8555 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.