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 The hosts_connection_nolog main option now also controls "no MAIL in
9 SMTP connection" log lines.
11 JH/02 Option default value updates:
12 - queue_fast_ramp (main) true (was false)
13 - remote_max_parallel (main) 4 (was 2)
15 JH/03 Cache static regex pattern compilations, for use by ACLs.
17 JH/04 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
18 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
19 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
21 JH/05 Follow symlinks for placing a watch on TLS creds files. This means
22 (under Linux) we watch the dir containing the final file; previously
23 it would be the dir with the first symlink. We still do not monitor
26 JH/06 Check for bad chars in rDNS for sender_host_name. The OpenBSD (at least)
27 dn_expand() is happy to pass them through.
29 JH/07 OpenSSL Fix auto-reload of changed server OCSP proof. Previously, if
30 the file with the proof had an unchanged name, the new proof(s) were
31 loaded on top of the old ones (and nover used; the old ones were stapled).
33 JH/08 Bug 2915: Fix use-after-free for $regex<n> variables. Previously when
34 more than one message arrived in a single connection a reference from
35 the earlier message could be re-used. Often a sigsegv resulted.
36 These variables were introduced in Exim 4.87.
37 Debug help from Graeme Fowler.
39 JH/09 Fix ${filter } for conditions that modify $value. Previously the
40 modified version would be used in construction the result, and a memory
43 JH/10 GnuTLS: fix for (IOT?) clients offering no TLS extensions at all.
44 Find and fix by Jasen Betts.
46 JH/11 OpenSSL: fix for ancient clients needing TLS support for versions earlier
47 than TLSv1,2, Previously, more-recent versions of OpenSSL were permitting
48 the systemwide configuration to override the Exim config.
54 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique message IDs) from
55 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
56 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
59 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
60 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
62 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
63 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
64 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
65 not be modified by local-scan code.
67 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
68 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
70 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
71 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
74 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
75 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
77 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
78 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
81 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
82 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
83 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
85 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
86 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
87 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
89 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
90 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
91 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
92 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
93 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
94 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
95 Assorted crashes happen.
97 JH/11 Fix use of $sender_host_name in daemon process. When used in certain
98 main-section options or in a connect ACL, the value from the first ever
99 connection was never replaced for subsequent connections. Found by
102 JH/12 Bug 2838: Fix for i32lp64 hard-align platforms. Found for SPARC Linux,
103 though only once PCRE2 was introduced: the memory accounting used under
104 debug offset allocations by an int, giving a hard trap in early startup.
105 Change to using a size_t. Debug and fix by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.
107 JH/13 Bug 2845: Fix handling of tls_require_ciphers for OpenSSL when a value
108 with underbars is given. The write-protection of configuration introduced
109 in 4.95 trapped when normalisation was applied to an option not needing
112 JH/14 Bug 1895: TLS: Deprecate RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
114 JH/15 Fix a resource leak in *BSD. An off-by-one error resulted in the daemon
115 failing to close the certificates directory, every hour or any time it
118 JH/16 Debugging initiated by an ACL control now continues through into routing
119 and transport processes. Previously debugging stopped any time Exim
120 re-execs, or for processing a queued message.
122 JH/17 The "expand" debug selector now gives more detail, specifically on the
123 result of expansion operators and items.
125 JH/18 Bug 2751: Fix include_directory in redirect routers. Previously a
126 bad comparison between the option value and the name of the file to
127 be included was done, and a mismatch was wrongly identified.
128 4.88 to 4.95 are affected.
130 JH/19 Support for Berkeley DB versions 1 and 2 is withdrawn.
132 JH/20 When built with NDBM for hints DB's check for nonexistence of a name
133 supplied as the db file-pair basename. Previously, if a directory
134 path was given, for example via the autoreply "once" option, the DB
135 file.pag and file.dir files would be created in that directory's
138 JH/21 Remove the "allow_insecure_tainted_data" main config option and the
139 "taint" log_selector. These were previously deprecated.
141 JH/22 Fix static address-list lookups to properly return the matched item.
142 Previously only the domain part was returned.
144 JH/23 Bug 2864: FreeBSD: fix transport hang after 4xx/5xx response. Previously
145 the call into OpenSSL to send a TLS Close was being repeated; this
146 resulted in the library waiting for the peer's Close. If that was never
147 sent we waited forever. Fix by tracking send calls.
149 JH/24 The ${run} expansion item now expands its command string elements after
150 splitting. Previously it was before; the new ordering makes handling
151 zero-length arguments simpler. The old ordering can be obtained by
152 appending a new option "preexpand", after a comma, to the "run".
154 JH/25 Taint-check exec arguments for transport-initiated external processes.
155 Previously, tainted values could be used. This affects "pipe", "lmtp" and
156 "queryprogram" transport, transport-filter, and ETRN commands.
157 The ${run} expansion is also affected: in "preexpand" mode no part of
158 the command line may be tainted, in default mode the executable name
161 JH/26 Fix CHUNKING on a continued-transport. Previously the usabliility of
162 the the facility was not passed across execs, and only the first message
163 passed over a connection could use BDAT; any further ones using DATA.
165 JH/27 Support the PIPECONNECT facility in the smtp transport when the helo_data
166 uses $sending_ip_address and an interface is specified.
167 Previously any use of the local address in the EHLO name disabled
168 PIPECONNECT, the common case being to use the rDNS of it.
170 JH/28 OpenSSL: fix transport-required OCSP stapling verification under session
171 resumption. Previously verify failed because no certificate status is
172 passed on the wire for the restarted session. Fix by using the recorded
173 ocsp status of the stored session for the new connection.
175 JH/29 TLS resumption: the key for session lookup in the client now includes
176 more info that a server could potentially use in configuring a TLS
177 session, avoiding oferring mismatching sessions to such a server.
178 Previously only the server IP was used.
180 JH/30 Fix string_copyn() for limit greater than actual string length.
181 Previously the copied amount was the limit, which could result in a
182 overlapping memcpy for newly allocated destination soon after a
183 source string shorter than the limit. Found/investigated by KM.
185 JH/31 Bug 2886: GnuTLS: Do not free the cached creds on transport connection
186 close; it may be needed for a subsequent connection. This caused a
187 SEGV on primary-MX defer. Found/investigated by Gedalya & Andreas.
189 JH/32 Fix CHUNKING for a second message on a connection when the first was
190 rejected. Previously we did not reset the chunking-offered state, and
191 erroneously rejected the BDAT command. Investigation help from
194 JH/33 Fis ${srs_encode ...} to handle an empty sender address, now returning
195 an empty address. Previously the expansion returned an error.
197 HS/01 Bug 2855: Handle a v4mapped sender address given us by a frontending
198 proxy. Previously these were misparsed, leading to paniclog entries.
204 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
205 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
206 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
208 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
209 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
210 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
211 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
213 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
214 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
215 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
216 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
217 so could be handling tainted values.
219 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
220 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
221 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
223 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
224 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
225 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
228 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
229 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
230 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
231 to align better with RFC 6125.
233 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
234 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
235 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
236 by adding a release action in that path.
238 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
239 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
240 dynamically-created buffers.
242 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
243 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
244 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
245 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
247 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
248 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
249 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
250 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
252 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
253 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
254 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
256 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
257 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
258 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
259 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
261 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
262 excluded, not matching the documentation.
264 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
265 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
267 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
268 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
269 this was a coding error.
271 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
272 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
273 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
274 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
275 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
276 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
277 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
279 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
280 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
281 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
282 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
284 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
285 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
286 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
287 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
288 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
290 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
291 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
294 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
295 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
296 domain-parking registrar.
298 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
299 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
300 after removing the newline.
302 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
303 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
304 option set, which was previously used.
306 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
309 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
310 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
311 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
312 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
314 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
315 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
316 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
317 exim.dev.20160529.3).
319 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
320 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
321 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
323 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
324 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
325 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
328 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
329 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
330 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
332 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
333 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
334 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
335 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
338 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
339 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
340 there, handle PRX and TFO.
342 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
343 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
344 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
345 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
346 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
348 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
349 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
350 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
351 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
354 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
355 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
357 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
360 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
361 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
362 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
363 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
364 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
366 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
368 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
369 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
370 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
371 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
372 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
373 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
375 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
376 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
378 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
379 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
380 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
382 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
383 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
386 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
387 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
388 of a new variable: $auth4.
390 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
391 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
392 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
393 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
394 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
396 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
397 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
398 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
399 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
401 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
402 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
403 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
405 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
406 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
407 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
408 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
411 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
412 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
413 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
416 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
417 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
418 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
419 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
421 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
422 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
424 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
425 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
426 looked as if if might be one.
428 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
429 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
430 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
431 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
432 messages can show the proxy information.
434 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
435 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
436 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
437 "queue_time_exclusive".
439 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
440 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
441 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
443 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
444 making it unusable in complex expressions.
446 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
447 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
450 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
452 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
454 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
456 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
457 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
458 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
459 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
461 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
462 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
464 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
465 better. Reported by Qualys.
467 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
468 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
471 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
473 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
476 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
478 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
479 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
480 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
481 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
483 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
484 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
486 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
487 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
488 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
489 mode until after various protocol state checks.
490 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
492 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
494 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
495 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
497 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
500 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
501 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
502 executed child processes (if any).
504 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
507 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
508 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
509 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
510 been reported on other platforms.
512 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
514 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
515 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
516 Not supported on Solaris 10.
518 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
519 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
520 since fakereject was originally introduced.
522 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
523 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
525 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
526 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
527 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
530 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
531 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
532 which only permit IP addresses.
538 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
539 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
540 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
542 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
544 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
545 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
548 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
549 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
550 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
552 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
554 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
556 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
557 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
558 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
560 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
561 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
562 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
564 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
565 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
567 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
568 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
571 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
572 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
573 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
574 should both provide the file and set the option.
575 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
577 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
578 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
580 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
581 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
582 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
583 Authentication-Results: header.
585 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
586 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
587 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
588 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
590 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
591 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
592 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
593 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
594 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
595 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
596 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
598 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
599 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
600 copies while it is still usable.
602 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
603 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
604 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
606 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
607 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
609 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
610 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
611 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
612 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
614 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
615 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
616 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
619 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
620 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
621 - the pipe transport command
622 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
623 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
625 - paths used by single-key lookups
626 Previously this was permitted.
628 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
629 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
630 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
631 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
633 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
634 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
635 support larger malloc requests.
637 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
638 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
639 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
640 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
642 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
643 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
644 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
645 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
648 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
649 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
650 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
651 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
652 data being length-specified.
654 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
655 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
656 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
657 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
659 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
660 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
661 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
662 not being properly tracked.
664 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
665 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
666 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
667 minute could be seen.
669 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
670 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
671 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
673 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
674 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
676 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
677 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
680 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
682 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
683 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
685 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
686 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
687 filesystem as sufficient validation.
689 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
690 argument is supplied.
692 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
693 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
694 access under Exim's current working directory.
696 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
697 Previously no event was raised.
699 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
700 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
701 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
704 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
705 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
706 the size of the signature hash.
708 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
709 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
711 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
712 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
713 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
714 dropped between messages.
716 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
717 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
718 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
719 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
721 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
722 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
723 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
724 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
725 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
726 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
727 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
728 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
729 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
731 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
732 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
733 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
735 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
736 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
743 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
744 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
746 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
747 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
750 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
753 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
755 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
757 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
758 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
760 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
761 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
762 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
763 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
764 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
765 suitably configured).
767 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
768 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
770 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
771 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
774 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
775 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
777 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
778 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
779 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
780 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
783 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
784 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
785 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
787 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
790 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
791 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
793 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
794 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
795 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
796 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
799 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
800 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
801 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
802 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
805 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
806 shared (NFS) environment.
808 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
809 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
812 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
813 on some platforms for bit 31.
815 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
816 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
817 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
818 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
819 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
820 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
821 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
822 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
824 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
826 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
827 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
829 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
830 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
833 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
834 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
837 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
838 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
839 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
842 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
843 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
844 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
846 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
847 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
848 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
849 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
850 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
852 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
855 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
856 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
857 be requested on all coneections.
859 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
860 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
862 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
864 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
865 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
866 one for these; the option was ignored.
868 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
869 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
870 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
871 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
873 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
874 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
875 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
878 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
879 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
880 error ignored was made.
882 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
884 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
885 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
886 values, to catch one form of exploit.
888 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
889 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
890 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
892 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
893 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
896 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
897 them in our smtp response.
899 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
900 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
901 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
902 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
903 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
905 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
906 link count into consideration.
908 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
909 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
911 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
912 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
913 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
916 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
918 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
920 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
922 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
923 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
924 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
925 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
927 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
929 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
930 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
933 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
934 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
935 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
937 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
938 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
939 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
941 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
942 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
943 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
944 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
945 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
946 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
947 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
948 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
950 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
951 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
952 resulted in an indefinite loop.
954 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
955 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
956 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
958 JH/48 Bug 2784: fix shutdown=no in the ${readsocket) expansion item. Previously
959 an incorrect mode was used for reading the result, resulting in it being
966 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
967 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
969 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
970 non-signal-safe functions being used.
972 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
973 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
974 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
976 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
977 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
978 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
980 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
981 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
982 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
983 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
984 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
987 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
988 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
990 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
991 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
992 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
993 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
994 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
995 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
996 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
998 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
999 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
1001 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
1004 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
1005 Previously this would segfault.
1007 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
1010 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
1011 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
1012 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
1013 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
1014 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
1015 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
1017 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
1019 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
1020 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
1021 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
1022 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
1024 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
1026 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
1027 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
1028 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
1029 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
1031 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
1033 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
1035 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
1036 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
1037 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
1039 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
1040 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
1041 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
1043 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
1045 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
1046 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
1047 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
1048 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
1050 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
1051 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
1052 promised '?' replacement.
1054 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
1056 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
1057 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
1058 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
1059 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
1060 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
1062 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
1063 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
1064 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
1066 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
1067 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
1068 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
1070 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
1071 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
1072 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
1074 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
1075 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
1076 hope that is portable enough.
1078 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
1079 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
1080 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
1081 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
1083 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
1084 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
1085 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
1087 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
1088 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
1089 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
1090 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
1092 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
1093 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
1095 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
1096 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
1097 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
1098 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
1100 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
1101 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
1102 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
1104 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
1105 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
1106 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
1107 the previous G, M, k.
1109 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
1110 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
1113 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
1114 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
1115 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
1116 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
1118 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
1119 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
1121 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
1122 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
1123 off past the nul-terimation.
1125 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
1126 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
1127 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
1128 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
1129 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
1131 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
1133 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
1134 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
1135 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
1138 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
1139 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
1141 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
1142 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
1143 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
1145 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
1146 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
1147 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
1149 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
1150 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1156 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1157 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1158 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1159 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1160 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1161 be defined in redis_servers.
1163 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1164 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1166 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1167 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1168 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1169 extant use locations.
1171 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1172 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1174 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1175 Previously only the last row was returned.
1177 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1178 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1179 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1180 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1183 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1184 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1185 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1186 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1187 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1188 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1189 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1190 Main pool for expansions.
1191 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1192 active in the testsuite.
1193 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1195 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1196 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1197 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1198 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1201 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1202 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1205 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1206 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1207 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1209 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1210 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1211 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1213 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1214 rows affected is given instead).
1216 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1217 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1219 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1220 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1221 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1222 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1223 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1225 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1226 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1227 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1229 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1230 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1231 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1232 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1235 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1236 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1237 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1240 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1242 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1243 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1245 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1246 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1247 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1249 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1250 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1251 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1254 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1255 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1257 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1258 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1259 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1261 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1262 for the build is renamed.
1264 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1265 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1266 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1268 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1269 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1270 result replacing the original.
1272 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1273 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1274 and the resources needed to be freed.
1276 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1278 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1281 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1282 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1283 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1284 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1286 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1287 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1289 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1290 newer versions of the scanner.
1292 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1293 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1294 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1295 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1296 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1297 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1298 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1300 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1301 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1302 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1303 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1304 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1305 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1306 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1307 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1308 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1309 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1311 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1312 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1314 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1316 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1317 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1319 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1320 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1322 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1323 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1324 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1326 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1327 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1328 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1329 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1331 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1332 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1335 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1336 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1338 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1339 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1340 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1341 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1342 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1344 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1345 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1348 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1349 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1351 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1354 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1355 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1356 "bare" representation.
1358 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1359 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1360 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1361 corrupted the output.
1367 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1368 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1369 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1370 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1372 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1373 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1375 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1376 This permits better logging.
1378 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1379 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1380 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1381 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1382 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1383 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1385 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1386 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1389 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1390 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1391 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1393 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1394 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1396 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1397 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1398 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1399 client, there is no benefit for these.
1400 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1401 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1402 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1405 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1406 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1408 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1409 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1410 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1412 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1413 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1415 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1416 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1417 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1418 signature and again for transmission.
1420 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1421 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1422 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1424 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1425 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1426 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1427 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1428 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1429 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1430 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1432 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1433 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1434 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1435 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1437 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1438 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1439 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1440 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1441 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1442 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1445 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1446 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1447 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1448 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1451 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1452 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1453 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1454 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1457 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1458 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1461 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1462 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1463 banner-time rejection.
1465 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1468 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1469 is the name of a transport.
1472 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1474 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1475 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1477 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1478 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1479 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1482 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1483 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1484 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1485 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1487 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1488 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1489 initial verify call returned a defer.
1491 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1492 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1494 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1495 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1497 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1498 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1500 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1501 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1503 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1504 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1507 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1508 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1510 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1511 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1512 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1514 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1515 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1516 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1517 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1519 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1520 and confused the parent.
1522 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1523 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1525 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1528 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1529 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1530 out-of-order delivery.
1532 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1533 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1534 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1537 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1538 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1541 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1542 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1543 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1545 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1546 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1547 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1548 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1549 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1550 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1552 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1553 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1554 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1556 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1557 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1558 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1560 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1561 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1562 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1563 though a different problem.
1569 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1570 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1572 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1574 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1575 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1577 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1578 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1580 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1581 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1582 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1583 before acknowledging the chunk.
1585 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1586 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1587 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1589 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1590 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1591 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1594 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1595 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1596 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1598 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1599 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1601 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1602 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1603 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1604 body hash calculated value.
1606 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1607 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1608 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1610 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1612 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1613 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1615 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1616 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1617 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1619 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1620 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1621 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1622 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1623 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1624 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1626 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1627 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1628 past that check, despite the cost.
1630 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1631 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1632 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1634 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1635 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1636 TLS library to consume.
1638 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1640 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1642 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1643 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1644 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1645 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1646 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1647 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1648 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1650 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1652 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1654 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1655 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1656 should be warning-free.
1658 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1660 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1661 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1663 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1664 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1665 general solution here.
1667 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1668 already-broken messages in the queue.
1670 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1672 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1678 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1679 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1681 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1682 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1683 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1685 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1686 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1687 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1688 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1689 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1690 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1691 if one fails this test.
1692 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1693 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1695 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1696 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1698 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1699 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1701 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1702 in rewrites and routers.
1704 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1705 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1707 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1708 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1710 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1712 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1715 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1716 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1717 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1718 connection after a verify cache hit.
1719 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1721 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1722 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1724 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1725 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1726 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1727 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1728 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1730 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1731 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1733 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1734 Previously they were not counted.
1736 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1737 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1738 that needed the lookup.
1740 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1741 distinguished as "(=".
1743 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1744 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1746 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1748 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1749 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1751 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1752 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1754 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1755 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1758 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1759 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1760 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1761 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1763 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1765 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1766 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1767 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1769 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1770 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1771 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1774 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1775 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1776 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1779 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1780 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1781 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1783 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1784 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1787 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1789 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1790 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1792 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1793 are not in the system include path.
1795 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1796 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1797 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1798 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1800 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1801 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1802 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1804 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1806 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1807 an incoming connection.
1809 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1812 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1813 fallback to "prime256v1".
1815 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1816 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1822 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1823 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1824 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1825 client dropping the TLS connection.
1827 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1828 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1830 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1831 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1832 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1833 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1836 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1837 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1838 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1839 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1840 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1841 check on the next write.
1843 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1844 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1845 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1846 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1847 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1849 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1850 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1852 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1853 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1854 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1856 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1857 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1858 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1859 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1861 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1862 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1864 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1865 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1867 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1868 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1869 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1872 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1874 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1876 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1878 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1879 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1881 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1882 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1884 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1886 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1887 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1889 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1891 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1892 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1894 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1896 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1897 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1898 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1899 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1900 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1901 they will retry in-clear.
1902 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1903 at installation time.
1905 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1906 with the $config_file variable.
1908 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1909 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1910 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1911 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1912 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1914 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1915 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1916 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1917 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1918 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1920 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1922 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1923 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1924 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1925 list order is no longer honoured.
1927 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1928 for DKIM processing.
1930 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1931 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1933 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1934 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1935 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1936 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1938 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1939 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1941 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1942 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1944 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1945 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1947 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1949 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1950 cached by the daemon.
1952 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1953 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1955 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1956 keys are given for lookup.
1958 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1959 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1960 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1961 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1963 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1964 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1965 server-side so match that on older versions.
1967 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1968 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1969 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1971 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1972 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1974 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1975 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1976 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1977 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1978 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1979 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1980 initial truncated version.
1982 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1984 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1986 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1987 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1989 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1991 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1993 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1994 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1997 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1998 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
2001 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
2002 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
2004 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
2005 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
2008 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
2009 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
2010 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
2012 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
2013 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
2014 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
2015 extraction. Accept either.
2021 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
2024 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
2026 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
2029 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
2030 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
2031 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
2032 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
2034 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
2035 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
2036 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
2038 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
2039 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
2040 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
2043 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
2046 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
2047 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
2048 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
2049 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
2050 have a dsn_lasthop option.
2052 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
2053 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
2054 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
2056 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
2058 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
2059 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
2061 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
2062 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
2064 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
2067 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
2068 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
2070 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
2071 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
2072 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
2074 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2075 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
2076 specify a port-range.
2078 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
2079 timeout value per server.
2081 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
2082 now have the list separator specified.
2084 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
2087 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
2090 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
2092 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
2093 rather than the verbs used.
2095 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
2096 from 255 to 1024 chars.
2098 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
2100 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
2101 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
2103 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
2104 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
2106 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
2107 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
2109 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
2111 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
2113 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
2114 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
2115 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
2116 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
2118 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
2120 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
2121 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
2123 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
2124 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
2126 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
2128 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
2130 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
2132 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
2133 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
2135 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
2136 added for tls authenticator.
2138 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
2144 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
2145 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
2146 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
2147 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
2148 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
2149 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
2150 the script parsing/test process like normal.
2152 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2153 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2154 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2155 function when detected.
2157 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2158 cause callback expansion.
2160 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2161 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2162 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2163 instead of bool when processing it.
2165 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2166 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2168 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2170 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2172 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2174 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2175 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2177 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2178 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2179 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2180 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2181 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2182 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2184 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2185 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2188 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2189 version 3.3.6 or later.
2191 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2192 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2193 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2194 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2195 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2196 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2199 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2200 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2202 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2203 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2204 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2207 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2208 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2209 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2211 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2212 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2214 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2215 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2218 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2220 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2221 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2223 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2224 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2227 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2229 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2232 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2233 output list separator was used.
2238 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2239 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2242 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2243 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2245 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2247 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2248 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2254 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2256 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2257 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2258 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2259 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2260 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2261 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2263 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2264 utilities have not been installed.
2266 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2267 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2269 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2270 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2272 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2273 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2274 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2275 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2277 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2279 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2280 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2282 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2285 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2287 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2288 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2289 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2291 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2292 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2293 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2294 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2295 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2296 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2298 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2300 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2301 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2303 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2306 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2308 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2310 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2311 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2313 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2314 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2316 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2318 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2320 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2321 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2323 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2324 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2325 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2327 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2328 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2329 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2332 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2334 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2335 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2338 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2339 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2342 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2343 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2345 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2346 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2348 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2350 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2351 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2352 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2354 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2355 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2357 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2358 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2361 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2362 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2363 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2365 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2367 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2368 Christian Aistleitner.
2370 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2372 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2373 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2375 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2376 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2378 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2379 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2381 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2382 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2384 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2385 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2387 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2388 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2389 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2391 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2393 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2394 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2397 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2399 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2400 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2407 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2409 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2410 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2412 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2415 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2416 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2419 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2421 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2422 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2423 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2424 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2425 using channel bindings instead).
2427 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2428 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2429 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2430 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2431 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2434 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2436 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2438 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2439 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2441 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2442 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2443 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2445 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2447 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2449 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2450 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2452 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2454 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2456 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2458 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2459 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2461 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2463 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2464 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2467 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2468 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2470 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2471 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2474 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2476 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2478 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2479 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2481 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2484 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2485 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2487 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2488 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2490 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2492 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2494 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2497 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2500 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2502 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2503 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2504 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2505 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2507 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2509 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2510 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2511 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2512 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2515 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2516 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2517 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2519 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2520 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2521 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2522 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2524 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2525 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2526 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2527 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2528 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2529 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2530 delivery, as in LMTP.
2532 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2533 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2535 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2537 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2541 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2542 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2543 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2544 username as equal to the username.
2546 This change corrects that bug.
2548 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2549 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2550 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2552 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2554 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2555 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2556 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2557 NULL dereference and crash.
2559 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2561 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2562 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2563 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2565 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2567 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2568 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2569 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2570 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2571 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2572 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2573 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2574 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2575 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2576 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2577 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2579 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2580 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2582 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2583 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2586 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2587 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2588 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2589 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2590 an empty string is now equivalent.
2592 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2593 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2594 not performing validation itself.
2596 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2597 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2599 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2602 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2604 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2605 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2606 other false fix of the same issue.
2607 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2610 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2611 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2613 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2614 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2615 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2617 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2618 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2619 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2621 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2623 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2625 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2626 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2628 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2631 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2632 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2633 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2634 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2635 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2637 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2638 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2640 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2641 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2644 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2645 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2646 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2647 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2649 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2651 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2652 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2653 from multiple comments on this bug.
2655 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2657 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2658 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2661 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2662 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2664 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2665 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2671 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2673 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2679 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2680 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2681 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2683 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2685 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2688 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2690 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2692 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2694 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2695 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2697 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2698 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2700 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2701 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2703 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2704 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2705 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2707 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2709 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2710 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2712 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2714 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2716 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2717 non-compliant senders.
2718 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2720 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2721 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2722 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2724 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2725 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2726 in spool file corruption.
2728 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2729 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2730 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2733 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2734 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2735 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2737 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2738 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2740 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2742 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2744 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2746 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2747 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2748 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2750 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2751 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2752 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2753 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2755 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2756 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2758 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2759 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2760 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2761 resolver implementation change.
2763 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2764 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2766 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2768 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2770 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2771 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2773 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2774 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2776 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2777 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2779 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2780 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2781 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2782 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2783 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2785 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2787 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2788 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2789 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2791 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2793 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2794 read-only, out of scope).
2795 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2797 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2798 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2799 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2800 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2802 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2804 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2805 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2806 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2807 real issues in debug logging.
2809 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2810 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2812 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2813 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2814 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2816 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2817 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2818 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2821 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2822 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2824 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2825 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2826 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2827 needs to override this, it can.
2829 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2830 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2831 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2833 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2834 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2835 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2836 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2838 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2844 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2845 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2847 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2849 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2852 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2853 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2855 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2856 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2857 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2859 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2860 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2861 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2862 not safe for signals.
2864 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2865 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2866 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2867 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2870 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2872 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2873 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2874 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2875 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2876 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2878 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2879 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2880 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2881 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2882 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2883 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2885 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2886 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2887 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2888 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2890 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2891 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2892 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2893 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2895 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2896 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2897 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2898 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2899 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2900 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2901 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2902 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2903 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2905 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2906 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2907 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2908 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2910 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2911 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2912 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2913 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2914 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2915 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2916 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2917 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2918 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2919 details in the main documentation.
2921 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2923 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2925 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2926 repository when doing development or release builds.
2928 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2929 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2931 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2932 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2935 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2937 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2938 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2940 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2941 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2943 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2944 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2946 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2947 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2949 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2950 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2952 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2954 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2957 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2958 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2959 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2961 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2963 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2965 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2966 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2972 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2974 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2975 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2977 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2979 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2981 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2984 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2985 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2987 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2988 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2990 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2991 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2993 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2996 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2997 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2999 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
3000 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
3001 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
3002 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
3004 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
3005 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
3011 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
3014 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
3015 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
3016 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
3018 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
3019 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
3021 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
3022 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
3023 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
3025 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
3026 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
3028 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
3029 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
3031 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
3032 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
3034 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
3035 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
3037 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
3038 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
3040 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
3043 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
3044 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
3046 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
3047 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
3049 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
3050 SQL string expansion failure details.
3051 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
3053 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
3054 Patch from Simon Arlott.
3056 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
3057 extern declarations in function scope.
3058 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
3060 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
3061 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
3062 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
3065 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
3066 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3068 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
3069 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3071 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
3072 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3074 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
3075 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
3077 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
3078 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
3081 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
3083 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
3085 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
3086 Patch by Simon Arlott
3088 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
3089 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
3095 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
3096 consequences so log it to the panic log.
3098 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
3099 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
3101 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
3103 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
3104 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
3105 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
3107 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
3108 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
3109 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
3111 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
3112 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
3113 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
3114 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
3116 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
3117 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
3118 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
3119 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
3121 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
3122 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
3123 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
3126 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
3129 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
3130 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
3131 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
3132 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
3133 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
3139 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
3140 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
3141 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
3143 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
3144 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
3146 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
3148 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
3150 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
3152 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3154 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3156 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3157 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3158 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3159 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3161 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3162 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3163 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3164 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3165 more caution in buffer sizes.
3167 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3169 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3171 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3173 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3175 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3177 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3179 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3181 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3182 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3183 ignore trailing whitespace.
3185 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3187 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3190 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3191 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3193 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3194 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3195 Notification from John Horne.
3197 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3200 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3201 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3204 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3207 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3208 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3209 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3211 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3212 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3213 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3216 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3217 option (effectively making it always true).
3219 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3220 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3222 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3223 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3225 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3226 run-time user, instead of root.
3228 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3229 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3231 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3232 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3235 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3236 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3237 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3239 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3241 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3247 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3248 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3251 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3252 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3255 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3256 Patch from Alain Williams
3258 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3260 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3261 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3263 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3264 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3266 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3268 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3270 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3271 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3273 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3275 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3277 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3278 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3279 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3281 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3282 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3284 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3285 Patch by Simon Arlott
3287 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3288 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3294 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3296 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3298 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3300 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3302 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3308 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3309 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3311 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3312 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3315 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3316 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3317 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3319 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3320 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3322 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3323 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3324 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3325 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3327 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3328 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3329 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3331 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3333 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3335 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3336 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3338 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3340 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3341 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3342 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3343 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3345 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3346 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3348 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3350 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3352 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3353 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3355 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3356 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3358 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3359 that they are available at delivery time.
3361 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3363 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3364 incoming_port log selectors.
3366 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3367 setting expands to an empty string.
3369 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3370 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3372 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3373 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3375 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3376 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3378 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3379 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3381 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3382 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3384 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3385 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3387 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3389 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3390 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3392 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3393 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3395 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3397 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3398 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3400 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3402 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3404 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3407 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3408 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3410 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3411 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3413 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3414 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3416 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3417 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3419 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3420 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3422 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3423 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3425 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3426 plus update to original patch.
3428 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3430 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3431 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3433 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3435 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3437 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3439 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3441 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3442 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3444 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3445 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3447 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3448 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3450 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3451 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3453 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3455 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3457 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3459 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3465 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3466 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3467 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3469 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3470 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3471 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3472 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3473 build errors in sieve.c.
3475 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3476 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3477 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3479 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3481 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3483 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3485 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3491 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3493 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3494 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3495 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3496 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3497 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3498 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3499 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3500 for iplsearch lookups.
3502 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3503 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3504 previously such lookups could never work.
3506 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3507 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3508 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3510 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3513 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3514 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3515 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3516 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3517 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3518 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3520 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3521 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3523 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3524 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3525 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3526 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3527 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3528 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3530 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3533 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3535 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3536 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3539 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3540 by clients under certain conditions.
3542 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3543 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3545 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3547 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3548 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3550 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3552 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3554 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3556 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3557 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3559 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3561 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3562 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3564 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3566 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3568 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3569 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3570 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3571 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3573 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3574 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3575 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3577 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3578 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3580 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3582 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3584 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3586 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3587 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3588 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3594 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3595 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3598 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3599 issue a MAIL command.
3601 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3603 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3605 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3606 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3607 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3608 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3609 item. This has been fixed.
3611 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3612 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3614 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3615 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3617 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3618 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3619 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3621 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3623 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3624 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3625 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3626 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3627 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3629 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3630 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3631 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3633 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3634 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3635 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3636 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3638 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3640 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3642 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3643 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3644 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3645 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3646 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3648 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3650 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3651 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3652 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3655 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3657 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3659 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3661 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3663 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3665 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3666 no_callout_flush is set.
3668 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3669 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3670 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3673 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3675 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3676 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3677 other ACL rejections are.
3679 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3680 with slight modification.
3682 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3683 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3685 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3686 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3689 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3690 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3692 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3694 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3695 expansion side effects.
3697 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3698 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3699 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3702 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3703 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3704 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3706 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3707 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3708 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3709 were accidentally chopped off.
3711 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3712 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3713 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3714 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3715 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3716 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3717 pipelining has not been advertised.
3719 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3721 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3722 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3723 This has been fixed.
3725 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3726 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3727 reported on Solaris.
3729 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3730 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3731 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3732 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3733 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3734 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3735 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3737 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3740 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3742 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3744 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3745 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3746 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3747 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3748 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3749 criteria to be more general.
3751 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3752 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3753 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3754 host_all_ignored option.
3756 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3757 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3758 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3759 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3760 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3761 is what is supposed to happen).
3763 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3764 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3765 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3766 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3767 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3770 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3771 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3772 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3773 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3774 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3775 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3778 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3780 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3781 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3783 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3784 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3786 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3788 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3790 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3791 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3792 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3793 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3794 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3795 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3796 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3797 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3798 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3799 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3800 least in a lot of common cases.
3802 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3803 advertised in response to EHLO.
3809 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3810 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3812 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3813 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3815 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3816 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3817 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3819 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3820 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3821 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3822 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3823 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3829 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3830 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3833 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3834 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3835 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3837 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3838 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3839 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3840 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3841 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3842 rather than extend the field.
3848 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3849 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3850 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3851 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3854 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3855 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3856 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3858 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3859 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3860 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3862 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3863 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3864 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3867 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3868 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3869 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3870 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3871 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3872 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3873 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3874 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3875 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3876 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3877 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3879 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3882 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3883 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3884 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3885 ignores EPIPE as well.
3887 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3888 (quoted-printable decoding).
3890 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3891 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3893 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3895 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3897 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3899 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3900 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3902 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3905 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3906 miscellaneous code fixes
3908 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3911 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3912 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3913 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3914 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3915 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3916 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3917 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3918 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3920 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3921 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3922 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3923 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3925 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3926 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3927 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3928 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3929 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3930 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3931 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3932 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3933 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3935 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3938 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3939 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3940 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3941 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3942 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3943 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3944 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3945 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3947 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3948 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3951 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3952 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3953 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3954 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3955 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3956 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3957 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3958 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3959 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3960 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3961 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3962 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3963 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3965 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3966 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3967 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3968 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3969 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3970 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3971 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3973 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3974 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3975 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3976 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3977 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3978 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3979 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3980 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3981 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3982 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3984 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3985 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3986 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3987 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3988 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3990 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3991 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3992 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3993 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3994 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3995 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3996 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3998 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3999 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
4000 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
4001 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
4002 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
4003 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
4006 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
4007 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
4008 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
4011 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
4012 if any retry times were supplied.
4014 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
4015 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
4016 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
4018 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
4020 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
4022 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
4023 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
4024 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
4025 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
4026 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
4027 before) are ignored.
4029 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
4030 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
4032 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
4033 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
4034 committing the later change.]
4036 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
4037 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
4038 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
4039 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
4040 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
4041 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
4042 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
4043 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
4044 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
4046 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
4047 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
4048 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
4049 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
4050 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
4051 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
4052 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
4053 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
4054 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
4056 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
4057 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
4058 hammering the server.
4060 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
4061 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
4063 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
4065 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
4066 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
4067 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
4069 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
4070 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
4071 one case where this was not true.
4073 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
4074 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
4075 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
4076 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
4079 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
4080 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
4081 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
4082 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4083 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
4084 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
4085 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
4086 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
4087 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
4090 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
4091 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
4092 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
4093 same for both kinds of LMTP.
4095 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
4096 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
4098 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
4099 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
4100 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
4102 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
4104 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
4106 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
4108 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
4109 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
4110 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
4111 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
4113 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
4114 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
4116 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
4117 be meaningful with "accept".
4119 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
4120 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
4122 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
4123 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
4124 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4126 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
4127 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
4128 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
4129 there is data to show.
4130 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
4132 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
4133 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
4134 as well as the number of messages.
4136 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
4137 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
4138 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
4140 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
4141 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
4142 have a flag are now skipped.
4144 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
4145 Added the -emptyok flag.
4147 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
4148 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
4150 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
4151 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4152 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4154 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4157 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4158 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4160 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4162 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4163 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4165 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4167 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4168 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4169 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4170 contravention of the specifications.
4172 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4173 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4174 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4176 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4177 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4178 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4180 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4182 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4183 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4184 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4185 some point in the past.
4187 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4188 transport during callout processing was broken.
4190 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4191 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4193 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4194 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4196 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4197 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4199 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4205 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4206 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4208 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4209 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4210 there is data to show.
4211 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4213 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4214 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4216 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4217 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4219 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4220 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4222 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4223 submissions from trusted users.
4225 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4226 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4228 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4229 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4230 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4231 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4232 there is now a framework to start from.
4234 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4235 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4236 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4238 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4240 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4242 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4244 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4245 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4246 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4248 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4251 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4252 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4253 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4255 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4256 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4257 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4260 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4261 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4262 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4263 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4264 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4266 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4267 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4269 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4271 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4272 operations in malware.c.
4274 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4277 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4278 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4279 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4282 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4283 statements to "add_header".
4285 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4286 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4288 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4289 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4292 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4296 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4297 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4298 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4301 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4302 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4304 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4305 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4307 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4308 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4309 any possible encoding problems.
4311 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4312 but not after initializing Perl.
4314 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4315 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4316 apparently, which is not desirable.
4318 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4321 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4324 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4326 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4327 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4328 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4329 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4331 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4332 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4333 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4335 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4336 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4337 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4340 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4341 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4342 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4343 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4344 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4350 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4351 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4353 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4356 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4357 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4358 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4359 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4360 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4361 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4362 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4363 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4366 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4368 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4369 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4370 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4372 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4373 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4374 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4377 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4378 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4380 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4381 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4382 option (which defaults to 0600).
4384 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4386 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4387 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4388 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4389 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4390 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4391 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4392 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4394 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4400 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4401 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4402 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4403 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4404 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4405 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4408 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4409 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4411 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4413 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4414 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4415 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4416 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4417 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4420 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4421 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4423 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4424 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4425 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4426 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4427 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4429 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4430 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4431 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4432 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4434 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4435 be the same on different OS.
4437 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4440 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4441 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4443 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4446 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4447 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4448 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4449 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4450 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4451 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4454 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4455 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4456 when Exim was called.
4458 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4459 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4461 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4462 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4463 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4464 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4466 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4467 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4468 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4469 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4472 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4473 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4474 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4476 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4477 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4478 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4480 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4483 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4484 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4485 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4486 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4487 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4488 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4489 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4490 values from the SRV records were lost.
4492 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4493 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4494 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4496 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4497 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4498 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4500 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4501 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4502 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4503 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4504 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4505 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4506 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4507 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4508 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4509 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4511 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4512 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4513 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4515 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4516 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4518 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4519 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4520 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4521 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4524 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4525 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4526 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4528 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4529 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4530 PH/23 above applies.
4532 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4533 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4534 (for which there is an explicit test).
4536 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4538 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4539 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4540 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4541 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4542 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4544 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4545 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4546 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4547 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4549 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4550 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4551 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4553 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4555 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4557 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4558 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4559 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4561 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4562 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4563 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4564 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4565 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4567 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4568 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4569 the message gets confusing).
4571 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4572 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4573 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4574 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4576 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4577 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4578 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4579 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4582 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4583 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4584 the different processes.
4586 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4588 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4590 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4591 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4593 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4594 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4596 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4597 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4598 messages matching specified criteria.
4600 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4602 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4603 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4605 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4606 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4607 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4608 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4609 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4610 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4611 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4612 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4613 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4614 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4616 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4617 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4618 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4620 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4622 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4623 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4624 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4625 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4626 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4627 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4628 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4631 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4632 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4634 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4636 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4638 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4640 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4641 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4642 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4643 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4644 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4645 size of the count of files.
4647 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4649 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4652 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4653 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4654 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4655 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4657 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4658 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4659 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4661 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4662 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4663 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4664 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4665 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4667 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4668 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4670 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4671 will now be deprecated.
4673 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4675 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4676 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4677 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4679 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4680 with very large, slow to parse queues
4682 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4684 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4686 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4687 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4688 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4691 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4692 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4693 Sieve code now uses this.
4695 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4696 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4698 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4699 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4701 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4703 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4704 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4705 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4706 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4707 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4709 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4710 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4711 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4712 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4714 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4716 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4718 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4719 is preferred over IPv4.
4721 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4722 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4723 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4724 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4725 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4726 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4727 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4729 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4730 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4731 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4733 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4735 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4736 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4737 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4738 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4739 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4740 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4741 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4742 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4743 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4744 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4745 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4747 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4748 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4749 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4755 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4757 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4758 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4760 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4761 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4762 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4764 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4766 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4769 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4772 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4773 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4774 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4777 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4778 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4780 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4781 inside the third argument.
4783 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4784 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4787 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4788 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4790 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4791 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4793 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4795 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4796 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4799 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4801 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4802 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4803 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4804 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4805 identical. For example:
4807 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4809 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4810 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4811 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4813 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4814 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4815 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4816 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4818 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4819 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4820 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4823 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4825 o fixes some comments
4826 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4827 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4828 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4829 and documents the missing references header update
4833 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4834 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4837 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4838 Electronic Mail") by including:
4840 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4842 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4843 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4844 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4845 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4846 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4848 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4850 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4852 The auto-replied keyword:
4854 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4855 message by an automatic process,
4857 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4859 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4860 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4862 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4863 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4866 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4867 to the default Received: header definition.
4869 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4871 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4872 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4873 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4875 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4876 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4877 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4879 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4880 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4881 and treats the condition as false.
4883 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4885 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4886 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4887 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4888 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4889 not changing the active code.
4891 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4892 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4894 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4895 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4897 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4900 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4901 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4902 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4903 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4904 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4905 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4906 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4907 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4908 the text comparison.
4910 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4911 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4912 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4913 The same fix has been applied.
4919 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4920 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4923 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4924 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4926 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4928 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4929 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4930 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4931 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4932 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4934 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4935 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4936 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4937 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4940 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4948 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4949 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4951 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4953 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4955 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4956 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4957 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4959 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4960 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4961 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4963 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4964 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4967 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4968 ${stat: expansion item.
4970 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4971 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4973 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4974 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4977 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4979 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4982 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4983 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4985 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4987 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4988 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4989 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4990 the end of the subprocess.
4992 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4993 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4994 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4995 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4996 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4998 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
5000 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
5002 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
5003 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
5005 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
5007 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
5009 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
5010 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
5013 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
5015 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
5016 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
5017 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
5019 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
5020 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
5022 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
5023 host errors such as "Connection refused".
5025 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
5026 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
5028 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
5029 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
5031 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
5032 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
5033 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
5034 contributed by a Radius user.
5036 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
5037 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
5039 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
5040 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
5042 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
5045 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
5046 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
5049 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
5050 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
5051 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
5052 header lines when this was not necessary.
5054 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
5056 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
5057 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
5058 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
5061 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
5064 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
5065 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
5066 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
5067 return code was incorrect.
5069 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
5071 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
5073 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
5075 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
5077 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
5078 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
5079 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
5080 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
5081 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
5084 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
5086 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
5087 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
5088 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
5089 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
5090 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
5091 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
5092 which is clearly wrong.
5094 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
5096 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
5097 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
5098 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
5101 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
5102 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
5104 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
5106 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
5107 the "build-* directories that it finds.
5109 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
5110 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
5112 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
5113 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
5115 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
5116 recipients, not senders.
5118 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
5119 the ratelimit ACL was added.
5121 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
5123 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
5125 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
5126 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
5127 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
5128 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
5130 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
5132 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
5133 clock is set back in time.
5135 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
5136 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
5138 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
5139 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
5141 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
5142 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
5145 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
5146 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
5149 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
5152 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5154 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5155 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5156 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5158 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5159 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5160 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5161 helo verification defer as a failure.
5163 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5164 actual error message.
5170 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5172 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5173 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5174 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5175 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5177 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5179 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5180 can still be requested.
5182 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5183 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5184 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5185 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5187 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5188 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5189 circumstances, but probably never did.
5191 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5192 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5193 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5196 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5198 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5199 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5201 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5203 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5205 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5206 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5207 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5208 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5209 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5210 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5212 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5213 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5214 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5215 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5216 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5217 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5219 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5220 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5222 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5223 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5225 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5226 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5228 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5230 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5232 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5234 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5236 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5238 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5240 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5242 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5243 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5244 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5246 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5247 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5248 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5249 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5251 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5252 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5253 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5255 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5256 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5257 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5258 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5260 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5261 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5264 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5265 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5266 should work with maildirs and everything.
5268 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5269 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5271 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5274 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5275 function for BDB 4.3.
5277 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5279 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5280 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5283 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5284 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5285 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5286 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5287 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5288 formatting function string_vformat().
5290 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5291 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5292 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5293 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5294 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5295 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5296 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5297 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5299 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5300 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5303 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5304 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5306 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5307 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5308 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5309 test. It is now used for both.
5311 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5312 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5313 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5314 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5315 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5316 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5318 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5319 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5320 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5323 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5324 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5325 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5327 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5328 experimental DomainKeys support:
5330 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5331 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5332 the control was given.
5334 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5336 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5338 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5340 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5341 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5342 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5345 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5346 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5347 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5348 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5349 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5350 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5353 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5354 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5355 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5356 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5357 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5358 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5360 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5361 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5362 do -d+all out of habit.
5364 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5365 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5368 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5369 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5370 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5371 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5372 record types that Exim uses.
5374 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5375 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5376 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5377 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5378 non-existent file that was broken.
5380 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5381 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5383 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5384 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5385 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5387 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5389 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5390 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5391 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5392 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5393 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5396 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5397 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5398 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5399 at a slight CPU cost.
5401 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5402 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5404 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5407 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5409 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5410 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5416 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5417 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5419 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5421 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5423 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5424 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5426 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5427 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5428 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5429 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5430 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5431 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5434 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5435 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5436 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5437 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5440 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5441 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5442 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5443 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5444 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5445 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5446 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5449 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5450 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5452 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5453 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5454 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5455 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5456 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5457 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5459 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5460 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5461 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5462 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5464 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5467 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5468 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5470 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5471 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5472 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5473 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5476 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5478 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5479 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5481 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5482 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5483 to what was transported.)
5485 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5487 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5488 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5489 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5490 spamd_address settings.
5492 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5493 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5494 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5495 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5496 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5498 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5500 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5501 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5502 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5503 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5504 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5506 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5507 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5509 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5510 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5511 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5512 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5513 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5514 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5515 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5518 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5519 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5520 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5521 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5522 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5523 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5524 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5527 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5529 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5530 driver and ACL definitions.
5532 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5533 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5535 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5536 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5537 understands it better than I do:
5539 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5540 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5542 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5543 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5544 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5545 => three warnings about OTP not working
5546 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5548 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5549 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5550 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5551 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5553 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5554 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5556 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5557 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5558 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5560 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5561 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5564 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5565 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5568 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5569 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5570 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5572 warn !verify = sender
5573 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5575 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5576 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5578 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5580 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5581 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5583 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5584 nomenclature these days.)
5586 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5587 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5589 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5590 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5591 . First host does not offer TLS;
5592 . First host accepts first address;
5593 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5594 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5595 . Second host accepts second address.
5596 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5597 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5600 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5601 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5602 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5603 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5604 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5606 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5607 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5609 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5610 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5612 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5613 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5614 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5616 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5617 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5620 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5622 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5623 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5624 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5625 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5626 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5627 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5628 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5630 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5631 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5632 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5633 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5634 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5636 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5637 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5640 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5641 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5642 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5643 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5644 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5645 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5647 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5649 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5650 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5651 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5652 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5653 printable escape sequences.
5655 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5656 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5659 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5660 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5663 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5664 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5665 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5666 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5667 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5669 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5670 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5671 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5673 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5675 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5676 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5679 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5680 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5681 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5682 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5683 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5684 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5685 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5686 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5687 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5690 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5691 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5692 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5693 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5697 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5698 ----------------------------------------
5700 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5701 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5702 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5703 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5704 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5705 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5708 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5709 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5710 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5711 historical information.
5717 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5719 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5720 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5722 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5723 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5726 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5727 filter fails to execute.
5729 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5730 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5731 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5732 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5733 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5735 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5737 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5738 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5739 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5740 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5742 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5743 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5744 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5745 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5746 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5748 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5750 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5752 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5753 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5754 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5755 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5757 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5758 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5759 sender verification.
5761 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5762 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5764 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5766 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5769 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5770 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5772 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5773 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5775 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5776 information about exactly what failed.
5778 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5780 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5781 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5782 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5784 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5785 It is now set to "smtps".
5787 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5788 ignore_target_hosts.
5790 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5791 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5792 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5793 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5796 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5797 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5798 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5800 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5801 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5802 wake it up if nothing else does.
5804 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5805 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5806 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5809 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5810 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5812 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5814 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5815 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5816 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5817 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5818 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5819 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5820 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5821 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5823 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5824 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5825 than one IP address.
5827 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5828 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5829 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5830 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5832 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5833 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5834 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5835 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5836 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5839 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5840 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5841 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5842 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5844 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5845 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5848 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5849 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5850 $sender_host_address.
5852 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5853 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5854 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5855 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5856 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5859 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5861 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5862 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5864 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5865 just the host names, not the priorities.
5867 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5868 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5869 controlled by a keyword.
5871 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5872 multiple records are returned.
5874 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5875 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5878 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5880 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5881 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5883 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5884 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5885 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5887 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5889 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5891 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5893 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5894 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5895 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5896 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5897 because the tests only now provoked it.
5899 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5900 (this can affect the format of dates).
5902 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5903 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5904 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5905 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5907 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5909 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5910 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5911 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5912 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5914 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5915 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5916 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5918 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5921 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5922 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5923 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5924 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5925 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5926 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5929 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5930 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5931 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5934 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5935 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5936 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5938 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5939 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5940 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5941 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5942 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5943 so I produce this patch..."
5945 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5946 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5949 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5950 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5951 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5952 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5955 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5957 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5958 long debug lines gets shown.
5960 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5961 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5963 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5965 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5966 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5967 of $primary_hostname.
5969 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5970 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5971 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5972 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5973 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5974 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5975 by change 4.50/55 above.
5977 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5978 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5979 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5980 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5981 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5982 running as the user.
5985 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5986 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5987 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5990 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5991 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5993 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5994 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5995 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5996 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5997 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5999 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
6000 This has been fixed.
6002 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6003 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6004 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6005 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6008 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
6010 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
6011 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
6012 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
6013 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
6015 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
6016 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
6018 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
6019 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
6020 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
6022 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
6023 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
6024 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
6027 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
6028 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
6029 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
6031 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
6032 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
6033 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
6034 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
6036 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
6037 during host lookups.
6039 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
6040 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
6042 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
6044 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
6045 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
6046 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
6047 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
6048 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
6051 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
6052 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
6054 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
6055 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
6056 for the non-SMTP ACL.
6058 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
6060 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
6061 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
6062 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
6063 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
6064 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
6065 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
6068 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
6069 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
6070 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
6071 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
6072 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
6074 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
6077 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
6079 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
6080 "vacation" handling.
6082 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
6083 OS variants using glibc.
6085 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
6088 ----------------------------------------------------
6089 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
6090 ----------------------------------------------------
6096 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
6097 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
6100 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6101 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6104 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6105 filter fails to execute.
6107 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6108 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6109 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6110 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6111 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6113 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6114 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6115 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6116 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6118 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6119 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6120 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6121 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6122 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6124 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6126 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6127 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6128 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6129 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6131 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6132 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6133 sender verification.
6135 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6136 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6138 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6139 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6141 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6142 ignore_target_hosts.
6144 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6145 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6146 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6147 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6150 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6151 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6152 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6154 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6155 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6156 wake it up if nothing else does.
6158 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6159 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6160 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6163 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6164 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6166 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6168 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6169 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6172 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6173 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6176 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6177 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6178 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6179 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6180 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6183 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6184 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6187 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6188 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6189 $sender_host_address.
6191 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6193 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6194 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6195 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6197 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6200 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6201 (this can affect the format of dates).
6203 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6204 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6205 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6206 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6208 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6209 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6210 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6212 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6213 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6214 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6215 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6217 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6218 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6219 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6221 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6224 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6225 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6226 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6227 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6228 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6229 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6232 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6233 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6234 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6235 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6238 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6239 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6240 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6241 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6242 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6243 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6244 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6246 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6247 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6248 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6249 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6250 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6251 running as the user.
6254 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6255 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6256 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6259 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6260 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6261 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6262 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6263 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6265 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6266 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6267 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6268 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6271 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6272 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6273 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6274 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6275 because the tests only now provoked it.
6281 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6282 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6283 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6284 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6285 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6286 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6287 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6289 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6290 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6293 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6295 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6297 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6298 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6301 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6302 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6303 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6304 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6305 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6307 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6308 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6310 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6312 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6314 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6317 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6318 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6320 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6321 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6322 affecting debugging statements).
6324 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6326 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6327 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6328 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6329 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6330 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6331 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6332 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6333 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6334 after the received time, and all would be well.
6336 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6337 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6338 condition in an expansion string.
6340 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6342 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6343 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6344 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6345 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6346 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6347 job under whatever limits there are.
6349 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6351 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6354 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6355 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6356 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6357 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6360 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6361 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6362 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6363 binary data in such strings.
6365 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6367 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6368 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6369 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6370 failure, which is pointless.
6372 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6374 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6376 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6377 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6378 Sender: header lines.
6380 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6381 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6382 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6384 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6385 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6386 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6387 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6388 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6391 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6392 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6393 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6394 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6395 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6397 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6398 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6399 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6402 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6403 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6405 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6406 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6408 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6410 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6412 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6414 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6417 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6419 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6421 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6422 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6423 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6424 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6426 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6427 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6433 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6434 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6435 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6437 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6438 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6439 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6440 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6441 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6442 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6444 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6445 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6446 verification failure".
6448 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6449 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6450 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6451 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6453 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6454 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6455 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6456 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6457 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6458 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6459 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6460 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6461 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6462 treated as a timeout.
6464 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6465 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6466 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6467 not set for Exim filters).
6469 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6470 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6471 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6473 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6475 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6476 try to make them clearer.
6478 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6479 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6481 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6483 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6485 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6486 only the Cygwin environment.
6488 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6489 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6490 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6491 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6492 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6494 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6495 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6496 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6497 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6498 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6499 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6500 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6502 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6503 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6505 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6507 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6508 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6509 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6511 To: susanne@some.where
6513 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6514 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6515 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6516 of addresses in From: header lines).
6518 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6519 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6520 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6522 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6523 treated as non-personal.
6525 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6526 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6528 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6530 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6532 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6533 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6534 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6536 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6537 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6539 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6540 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6541 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6542 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6543 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6544 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6546 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6547 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6548 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6549 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6550 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6551 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6552 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6553 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6555 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6557 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6558 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6560 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6561 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6562 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6564 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6565 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6567 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6568 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6569 rather than long int.
6571 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6573 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6579 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6580 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6581 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6582 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6583 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6584 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6590 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6591 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6593 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6594 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6595 socklen_t is defined.
6597 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6600 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6603 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6604 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6605 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6606 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6607 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6609 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6610 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6611 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6612 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6614 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6615 of flapping under certain conditions.
6617 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6618 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6619 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6621 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6623 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6625 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6626 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6627 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6628 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6630 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6631 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6632 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6633 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6634 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6635 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6636 preserved with the message after it was received.
6638 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6639 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6640 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6641 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6642 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6643 test suite worked just fine.
6645 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6646 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6647 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6649 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6650 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6653 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6654 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6655 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6656 does not fully solve it.
6658 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6659 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6660 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6661 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6662 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6664 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6665 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6666 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6668 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6669 string, for example:
6671 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6673 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6674 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6675 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6676 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6677 the routers could not see them.
6679 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6680 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6682 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6683 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6686 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6687 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6688 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6689 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6690 that needed quoting.
6692 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6693 was not being matched caselessly.
6695 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6698 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6699 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6700 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6701 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6702 when use_sender is false.
6704 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6706 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6708 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6710 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6711 the configuration file.
6713 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6714 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6716 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6718 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6719 bytes in the message body.
6721 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6722 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6725 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6727 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6729 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6730 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6731 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6732 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6739 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6740 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6742 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6743 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6744 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6745 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6746 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6748 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6749 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6751 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6752 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6753 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6755 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6756 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6757 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6759 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6762 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6763 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6764 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6765 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6766 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6767 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6768 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6774 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6775 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6776 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6777 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6778 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6779 default (and expected) setting.
6781 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6782 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6783 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6784 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6786 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6787 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6789 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6792 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6793 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6794 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6795 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6796 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6797 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6799 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6800 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6801 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6803 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6804 part (NOT match_host).
6806 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6808 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6809 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6810 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6811 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6812 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6813 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6814 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6815 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6816 the same named file.
6818 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6819 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6822 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6823 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6824 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6825 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6828 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6829 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6830 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6832 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6834 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6836 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6838 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6839 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6841 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6842 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6843 before starting the TLS session.
6845 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6847 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6848 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6850 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6851 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6852 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6853 colon in the middle).
6859 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6860 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6861 multiple configurations are in use.
6863 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6864 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6865 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6866 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6867 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6868 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6870 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6871 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6873 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6874 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6875 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6877 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6878 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6881 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6882 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6884 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6886 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6887 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6889 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6897 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6898 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6899 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6900 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6901 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6903 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6906 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6907 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6908 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6909 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6910 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6911 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6913 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6914 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6915 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6916 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6917 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6918 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6919 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6922 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6923 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6924 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6925 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6926 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6928 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6930 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6931 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6932 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6934 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6936 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6937 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6938 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6941 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6942 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6944 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6945 Three changes have been made:
6947 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6948 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6949 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6950 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6951 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6953 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6956 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6957 the modified behaviour.
6963 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6966 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6967 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6969 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6970 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6971 try to track down a specific problem.
6973 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6974 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6975 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6977 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6980 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6981 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6982 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6983 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6984 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6985 some earlier ones do not.
6987 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6989 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6990 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6991 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6992 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6993 address literals are enabled, of course).
6995 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6997 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6998 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6999 by a command such as
7003 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
7005 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
7007 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
7008 remained set. It is now erased.
7010 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
7011 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
7013 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
7014 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
7015 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
7016 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
7017 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
7018 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
7019 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
7020 appropriate error code.
7022 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
7023 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
7024 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
7025 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
7026 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
7027 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
7029 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
7030 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
7031 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
7033 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
7034 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
7035 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
7036 terminate the header.
7038 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
7039 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
7040 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
7042 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
7043 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
7044 (4.30/29). In particular:
7046 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
7049 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
7050 to write a maildirsize file.
7052 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
7053 the transport, the new value overrides.
7055 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
7058 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
7059 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
7060 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
7063 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
7064 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
7065 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
7068 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
7069 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
7070 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
7072 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
7073 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
7076 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
7077 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
7078 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
7080 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
7082 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
7084 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
7086 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
7087 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
7090 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
7091 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
7092 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
7093 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
7094 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
7095 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
7096 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
7099 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
7100 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
7101 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
7102 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
7103 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
7106 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
7107 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
7108 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
7109 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
7110 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
7111 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
7112 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
7113 cached value only when the same options are set.
7115 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
7117 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
7118 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
7119 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
7120 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
7121 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
7123 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
7124 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
7125 it is clearly obsolete.
7127 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
7130 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
7131 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
7132 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
7135 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
7136 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
7137 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
7138 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
7139 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
7141 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
7142 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
7143 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
7144 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
7146 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
7148 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
7150 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
7151 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7154 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7155 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7156 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7157 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7158 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7159 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7162 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7163 with the -f command-line option.
7165 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7166 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7167 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7168 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7169 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7170 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7172 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7173 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7176 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7177 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7178 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7179 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7180 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7181 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7182 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7183 buffer is too small.
7185 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7186 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7188 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7189 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7190 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7191 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7192 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7193 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7194 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7195 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7196 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7198 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7199 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7200 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7202 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7203 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7206 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7207 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7208 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7209 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7210 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7212 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7213 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7214 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7215 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7218 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7220 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7222 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7223 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7225 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7226 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7227 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7229 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7230 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7231 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7232 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7233 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7235 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7236 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7237 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7238 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7239 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7240 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7241 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7243 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7244 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7245 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7246 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7247 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7248 the test of how many are available.
7250 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7251 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7252 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7253 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7254 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7255 new message is started.
7257 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7258 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7260 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7261 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7263 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7264 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7265 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7268 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7269 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7270 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7271 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7272 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7273 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7274 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7276 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7277 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7278 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7279 interpreted as octal.
7281 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7284 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7285 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7286 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7287 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7288 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7289 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7291 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7292 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7293 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7294 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7296 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7297 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7298 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7299 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7301 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7302 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7305 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7306 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7308 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7310 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7311 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7312 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7313 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7315 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7316 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7317 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7318 supplied", which is not helpful.
7320 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7321 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7322 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7324 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7325 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7326 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7327 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7328 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7329 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7330 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7331 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7333 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7334 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7335 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7336 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7337 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7339 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7340 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7341 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7342 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7343 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7344 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7346 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7347 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7348 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7350 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7352 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7353 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7354 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7357 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7359 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7360 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7361 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7362 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7363 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7364 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7365 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7366 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7368 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7369 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7370 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7371 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7372 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7374 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7377 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7378 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7379 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7380 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7381 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7382 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7383 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7384 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7385 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7391 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7392 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7393 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7395 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7398 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7399 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7400 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7402 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7403 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7404 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7405 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7406 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7407 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7409 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7410 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7411 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7412 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7413 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7414 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7415 the Exim test suite.
7417 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7418 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7419 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7420 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7422 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7423 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7424 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7425 specify it in this variable.
7427 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7428 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7429 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7430 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7432 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7433 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7434 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7435 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7437 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7438 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7439 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7440 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7441 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7443 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7445 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7448 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7449 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7450 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7451 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7452 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7454 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7455 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7457 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7458 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7459 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7460 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7461 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7463 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7464 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7466 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7467 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7468 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7470 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7471 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7473 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7474 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7476 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7477 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7478 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7480 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7481 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7483 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7484 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7485 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7486 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7488 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7490 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7491 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7492 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7493 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7495 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7497 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7498 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7500 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7502 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7503 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7504 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7505 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7506 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7507 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7509 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7511 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7512 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7515 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7517 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7518 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7520 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7521 550 Sender verify failed
7523 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7524 the final line of the response.
7526 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7527 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7528 all other user lookups.
7530 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7533 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7534 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7535 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7536 result into an int without checking.
7538 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7539 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7540 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7542 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7543 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7544 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7545 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7547 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7550 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7551 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7553 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7554 to the empty sender.
7556 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7557 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7558 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7559 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7560 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7561 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7562 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7565 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7566 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7567 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7568 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7571 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7572 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7574 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7577 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7578 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7580 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7582 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7583 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7586 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7587 as soon as it is encountered.
7589 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7591 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7594 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7595 recognizes a tab character.
7597 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7598 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7599 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7600 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7602 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7604 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7607 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7609 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7611 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7612 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7615 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7616 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7617 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7618 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7619 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7621 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7622 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7624 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7625 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7626 list (.included file names were always shown).
7628 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7629 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7630 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7633 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7634 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7636 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7638 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7640 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7642 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7643 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7644 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7645 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7646 failures to open the logs.
7648 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7649 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7650 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7651 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7652 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7653 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7654 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7660 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7661 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7662 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7665 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7666 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7667 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7669 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7670 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7671 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7673 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7674 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7675 causing some misleading effects.
7677 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7678 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7679 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7681 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7682 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7683 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7684 queue-runner function directly.
7690 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7693 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7694 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7695 was always written to the default place.
7697 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7698 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7699 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7701 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7703 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7705 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7706 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7707 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7709 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7710 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7713 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7714 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7715 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7717 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7718 command line option is disabled.
7720 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7721 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7723 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7725 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7727 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7728 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7730 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7732 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7733 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7734 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7735 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7736 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7737 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7739 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7740 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7743 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7744 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7746 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7747 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7749 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7750 received was valid base64.
7752 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7753 name of the variable that was being set.
7755 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7757 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7758 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7759 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7760 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7761 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7762 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7764 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7766 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7767 nor realm was specified.
7769 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7770 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7771 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7772 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7774 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7775 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7776 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7778 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7779 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7780 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7782 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7783 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7784 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7785 some systems use these upper case variants.
7787 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7788 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7789 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7790 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7792 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7794 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7795 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7797 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7798 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7801 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7803 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7804 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7805 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7806 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7808 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7811 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7812 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7813 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7815 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7816 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7818 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7819 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7820 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7821 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7823 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7824 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7825 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7827 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7829 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7830 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7831 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7832 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7835 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7836 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7837 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7839 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7841 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7842 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7844 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7845 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7847 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7848 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7849 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7850 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7851 when emails are that large.
7858 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7859 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7861 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7862 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7863 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7865 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7866 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7867 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7869 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7870 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7871 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7872 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7873 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7875 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7876 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7877 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7878 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7879 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7882 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7883 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7884 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7885 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7886 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7887 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7888 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7889 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7890 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7891 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7892 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7893 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7894 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7895 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7897 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7898 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7901 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7902 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7903 error should be diagnosed.
7905 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7906 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7907 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7908 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7909 appeared instead of "NULL".
7911 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7912 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7913 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7914 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7915 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7916 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7919 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7920 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7921 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7927 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7928 or receiver verification errors.
7930 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7933 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7934 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7935 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7936 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7938 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7939 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7940 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7941 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7942 shouldn't happen again.
7944 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7945 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7946 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7948 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7949 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7951 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7953 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7954 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7956 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7957 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7960 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7961 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7962 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7964 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7965 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7966 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7967 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7969 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7970 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7971 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7972 to define what should happen).
7974 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7975 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7976 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7978 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7980 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7982 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7983 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7985 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7986 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7987 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7988 structure in all cases.
7990 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7991 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7992 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7993 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7995 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7996 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7999 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
8000 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
8002 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
8003 MD5 (which is deprecated).
8005 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
8006 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
8007 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
8009 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
8010 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
8011 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
8013 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
8014 the book and for uniformity.
8016 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
8018 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
8019 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
8020 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
8021 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
8022 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
8023 non-existent command as the problem.
8025 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
8026 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
8027 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
8029 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
8031 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
8032 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
8033 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
8035 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
8036 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
8037 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
8038 timestamps using strftime().
8040 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
8041 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
8043 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
8044 transport-time rewrites.
8046 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
8047 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
8048 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
8049 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
8051 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
8052 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
8054 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
8055 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
8056 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
8057 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
8060 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
8061 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
8062 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
8063 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
8064 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
8065 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
8066 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
8068 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
8069 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
8070 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
8071 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
8072 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
8074 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
8075 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
8076 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
8077 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
8078 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
8079 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
8080 remaining text gets split now.
8082 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
8083 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
8084 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
8085 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
8087 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
8088 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
8089 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
8090 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
8093 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
8094 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
8095 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
8096 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
8097 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
8098 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
8099 passed through if needed.
8101 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
8102 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
8103 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
8104 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
8105 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
8106 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
8108 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
8109 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
8110 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
8111 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
8112 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
8114 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
8115 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
8116 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
8117 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
8118 incorrect size information for certain domains.
8120 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
8121 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
8124 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
8125 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
8126 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
8127 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
8128 mayhem of various kinds.
8130 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
8131 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
8132 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
8133 the right test for positive values.
8135 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
8136 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
8137 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
8138 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
8139 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
8140 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
8141 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
8142 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
8143 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
8144 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
8147 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
8150 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
8151 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8154 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8155 the existing equality matching.
8157 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8158 dealing with inode numbers.
8160 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8161 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8162 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8164 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8165 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8166 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8167 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8170 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8171 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8172 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8173 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8174 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8175 relay addresses has also been removed.
8177 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8179 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8180 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8181 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8183 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8184 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8185 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8186 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8187 processing applies to CR:
8189 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8190 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8192 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8193 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8194 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8195 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8197 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8198 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8199 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8201 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8202 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8203 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8204 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8205 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8206 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8209 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8212 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8213 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8214 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8215 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8218 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8220 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8222 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8224 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8225 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8226 not considered personal.
8228 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8230 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8232 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8234 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8235 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8236 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8237 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8238 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8239 header lines, and spool format errors.
8241 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8242 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8243 for more flexibility.
8245 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8246 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8247 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8249 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8252 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8253 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8254 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8255 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8256 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8257 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8258 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8259 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8260 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8262 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8263 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8264 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8265 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8266 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8267 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8268 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8270 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8271 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8272 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8274 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8275 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8276 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8277 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8278 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8279 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8280 instead of killing the process with assert().
8282 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8283 than Unicode encoding.
8285 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8286 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8287 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8288 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8290 77. Added process_log_path.
8292 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8293 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8295 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8296 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8298 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8299 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8300 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8302 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8303 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8304 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8305 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8306 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8309 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8310 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8313 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8314 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8315 they will be used during message reception.
8321 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.