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 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique messmage IDs) from
9 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
10 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
13 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
14 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
16 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
17 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
18 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
19 not be modified by local-scan code.
21 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
22 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
24 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
25 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
28 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
29 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
31 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
32 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
35 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
36 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
37 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
39 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
40 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
41 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
47 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
48 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
49 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
51 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
52 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
53 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
54 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
56 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
57 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
58 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
59 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
60 so could be handling tainted values.
62 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
63 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
64 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
66 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
67 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
68 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
71 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
72 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
73 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
74 to align better with RFC 6125.
76 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
77 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
78 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
79 by adding a release action in that path.
81 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
82 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
83 dynamically-created buffers.
85 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
86 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
87 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
88 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
90 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
91 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
92 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
93 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
95 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
96 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
97 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
99 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
100 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
101 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
102 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
104 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
105 excluded, not matching the documentation.
107 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
108 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
110 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
111 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
112 this was a coding error.
114 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
115 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
116 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
117 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
118 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
119 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
120 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
122 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
123 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
124 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
125 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
127 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
128 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
129 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
130 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
131 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
133 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
134 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
137 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
138 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
139 domain-parking registrar.
141 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
142 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
143 after removing the newline.
145 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
146 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
147 option set, which was previously used.
149 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
152 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
153 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
154 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
155 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
157 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
158 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
159 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
160 exim.dev.20160529.3).
162 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
163 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
164 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
166 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
167 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
168 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
171 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
172 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
173 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
175 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
176 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
177 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
178 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
181 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
182 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
183 there, handle PRX and TFO.
185 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
186 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
187 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
188 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
189 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
191 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
192 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
193 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
194 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
197 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
198 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
200 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
203 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
204 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
205 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
206 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
207 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
209 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
211 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
212 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
213 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
214 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
215 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
216 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
218 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
219 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
221 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
222 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
223 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
225 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
226 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
229 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
230 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
231 of a new variable: $auth4.
233 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
234 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
235 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
236 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
237 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
239 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
240 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
241 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
242 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
244 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
245 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
246 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
248 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
249 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
250 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
251 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
254 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
255 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
256 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
259 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
260 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
261 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
262 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
264 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
265 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
267 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
268 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
269 looked as if if might be one.
271 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
272 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
273 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
274 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
275 messages can show the proxy information.
277 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
278 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
279 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
280 "queue_time_exclusive".
282 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
283 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
284 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
286 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
287 making it unusable in complex expressions.
289 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
290 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
293 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
295 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
297 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
299 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
300 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
301 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
302 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
304 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
305 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
307 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
308 better. Reported by Qualys.
310 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
311 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
314 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
316 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
319 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
321 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
322 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
323 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
324 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
326 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
327 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
329 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
330 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
331 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
332 mode until after various protocol state checks.
333 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
335 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
337 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
338 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
340 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
343 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
344 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
345 executed child processes (if any).
347 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
350 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
351 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
352 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
353 been reported on other platforms.
355 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
357 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
358 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
359 Not supported on Solaris 10.
361 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
362 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
363 since fakereject was originally introduced.
365 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
366 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
368 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
369 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
370 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
373 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
374 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
375 which only permit IP addresses.
381 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
382 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
383 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
385 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
387 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
388 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
391 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
392 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
393 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
395 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
397 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
399 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
400 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
401 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
403 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
404 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
405 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
407 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
408 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
410 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
411 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
414 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
415 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
416 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
417 should both provide the file and set the option.
418 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
420 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
421 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
423 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
424 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
425 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
426 Authentication-Results: header.
428 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
429 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
430 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
431 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
433 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
434 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
435 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
436 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
437 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
438 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
439 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
441 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
442 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
443 copies while it is still usable.
445 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
446 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
447 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
449 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
450 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
452 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
453 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
454 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
455 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
457 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
458 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
459 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
462 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
463 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
464 - the pipe transport command
465 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
466 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
468 - paths used by single-key lookups
469 Previously this was permitted.
471 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
472 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
473 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
474 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
476 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
477 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
478 support larger malloc requests.
480 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
481 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
482 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
483 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
485 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
486 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
487 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
488 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
491 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
492 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
493 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
494 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
495 data being length-specified.
497 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
498 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
499 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
500 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
502 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
503 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
504 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
505 not being properly tracked.
507 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
508 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
509 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
510 minute could be seen.
512 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
513 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
514 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
516 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
517 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
519 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
520 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
523 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
525 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
526 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
528 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
529 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
530 filesystem as sufficient validation.
532 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
533 argument is supplied.
535 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
536 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
537 access under Exim's current working directory.
539 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
540 Previously no event was raised.
542 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
543 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
544 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
547 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
548 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
549 the size of the signature hash.
551 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
552 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
554 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
555 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
556 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
557 dropped between messages.
559 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
560 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
561 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
562 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
564 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
565 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
566 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
567 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
568 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
569 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
570 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
571 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
572 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
574 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
575 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
576 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
578 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
579 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
586 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
587 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
589 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
590 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
593 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
596 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
598 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
600 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
601 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
603 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
604 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
605 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
606 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
607 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
608 suitably configured).
610 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
611 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
613 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
614 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
617 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
618 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
620 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
621 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
622 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
623 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
626 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
627 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
628 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
630 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
633 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
634 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
636 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
637 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
638 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
639 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
642 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
643 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
644 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
645 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
648 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
649 shared (NFS) environment.
651 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
652 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
655 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
656 on some platforms for bit 31.
658 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
659 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
660 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
661 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
662 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
663 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
664 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
665 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
667 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
669 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
670 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
672 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
673 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
676 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
677 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
680 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
681 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
682 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
685 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
686 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
687 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
689 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
690 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
691 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
692 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
693 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
695 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
698 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
699 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
700 be requested on all coneections.
702 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
703 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
705 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
707 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
708 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
709 one for these; the option was ignored.
711 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
712 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
713 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
714 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
716 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
717 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
718 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
721 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
722 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
723 error ignored was made.
725 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
727 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
728 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
729 values, to catch one form of exploit.
731 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
732 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
733 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
735 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
736 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
739 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
740 them in our smtp response.
742 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
743 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
744 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
745 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
746 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
748 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
749 link count into consideration.
751 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
752 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
754 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
755 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
756 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
759 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
761 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
763 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
765 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
766 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
767 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
768 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
770 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
772 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
773 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
776 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
777 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
778 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
780 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
781 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
782 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
784 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
785 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
786 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
787 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
788 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
789 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
790 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
791 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
793 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
794 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
795 resulted in an indefinite loop.
797 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
798 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
799 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
805 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
806 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
808 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
809 non-signal-safe functions being used.
811 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
812 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
813 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
815 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
816 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
817 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
819 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
820 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
821 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
822 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
823 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
826 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
827 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
829 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
830 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
831 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
832 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
833 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
834 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
835 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
837 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
838 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
840 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
843 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
844 Previously this would segfault.
846 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
849 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
850 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
851 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
852 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
853 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
854 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
856 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
858 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
859 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
860 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
861 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
863 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
865 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
866 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
867 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
868 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
870 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
872 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
874 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
875 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
876 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
878 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
879 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
880 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
882 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
884 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
885 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
886 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
887 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
889 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
890 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
891 promised '?' replacement.
893 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
895 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
896 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
897 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
898 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
899 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
901 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
902 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
903 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
905 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
906 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
907 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
909 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
910 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
911 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
913 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
914 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
915 hope that is portable enough.
917 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
918 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
919 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
920 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
922 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
923 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
924 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
926 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
927 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
928 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
929 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
931 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
932 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
934 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
935 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
936 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
937 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
939 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
940 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
941 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
943 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
944 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
945 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
946 the previous G, M, k.
948 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
949 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
952 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
953 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
954 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
955 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
957 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
958 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
960 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
961 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
962 off past the nul-terimation.
964 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
965 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
966 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
967 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
968 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
970 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
972 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
973 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
974 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
977 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
978 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
980 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
981 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
982 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
984 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
985 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
986 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
988 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
989 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
995 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
996 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
997 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
998 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
999 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1000 be defined in redis_servers.
1002 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1003 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1005 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1006 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1007 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1008 extant use locations.
1010 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1011 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1013 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1014 Previously only the last row was returned.
1016 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1017 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1018 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1019 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1022 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1023 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1024 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1025 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1026 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1027 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1028 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1029 Main pool for expansions.
1030 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1031 active in the testsuite.
1032 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1034 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1035 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1036 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1037 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1040 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1041 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1044 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1045 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1046 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1048 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1049 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1050 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1052 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1053 rows affected is given instead).
1055 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1056 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1058 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1059 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1060 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1061 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1062 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1064 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1065 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1066 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1068 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1069 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1070 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1071 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1074 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1075 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1076 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1079 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1081 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1082 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1084 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1085 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1086 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1088 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1089 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1090 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1093 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1094 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1096 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1097 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1098 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1100 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1101 for the build is renamed.
1103 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1104 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1105 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1107 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1108 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1109 result replacing the original.
1111 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1112 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1113 and the resources needed to be freed.
1115 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1117 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1120 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1121 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1122 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1123 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1125 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1126 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1128 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1129 newer versions of the scanner.
1131 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1132 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1133 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1134 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1135 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1136 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1137 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1139 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1140 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1141 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1142 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1143 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1144 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1145 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1146 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1147 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1148 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1150 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1151 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1153 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1155 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1156 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1158 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1159 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1161 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1162 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1163 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1165 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1166 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1167 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1168 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1170 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1171 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1174 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1175 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1177 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1178 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1179 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1180 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1181 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1183 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1184 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1187 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1188 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1190 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1193 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1194 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1195 "bare" representation.
1197 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1198 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1199 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1200 corrupted the output.
1206 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1207 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1208 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1209 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1211 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1212 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1214 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1215 This permits better logging.
1217 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1218 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1219 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1220 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1221 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1222 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1224 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1225 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1228 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1229 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1230 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1232 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1233 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1235 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1236 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1237 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1238 client, there is no benefit for these.
1239 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1240 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1241 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1244 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1245 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1247 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1248 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1249 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1251 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1252 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1254 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1255 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1256 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1257 signature and again for transmission.
1259 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1260 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1261 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1263 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1264 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1265 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1266 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1267 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1268 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1269 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1271 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1272 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1273 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1274 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1276 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1277 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1278 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1279 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1280 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1281 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1284 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1285 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1286 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1287 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1290 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1291 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1292 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1293 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1296 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1297 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1300 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1301 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1302 banner-time rejection.
1304 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1307 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1308 is the name of a transport.
1311 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1313 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1314 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1316 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1317 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1318 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1321 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1322 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1323 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1324 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1326 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1327 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1328 initial verify call returned a defer.
1330 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1331 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1333 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1334 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1336 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1337 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1339 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1340 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1342 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1343 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1346 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1347 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1349 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1350 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1351 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1353 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1354 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1355 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1356 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1358 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1359 and confused the parent.
1361 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1362 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1364 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1367 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1368 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1369 out-of-order delivery.
1371 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1372 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1373 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1376 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1377 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1380 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1381 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1382 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1384 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1385 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1386 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1387 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1388 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1389 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1391 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1392 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1393 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1395 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1396 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1397 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1399 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1400 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1401 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1402 though a different problem.
1408 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1409 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1411 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1413 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1414 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1416 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1417 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1419 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1420 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1421 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1422 before acknowledging the chunk.
1424 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1425 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1426 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1428 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1429 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1430 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1433 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1434 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1435 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1437 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1438 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1440 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1441 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1442 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1443 body hash calculated value.
1445 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1446 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1447 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1449 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1451 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1452 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1454 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1455 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1456 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1458 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1459 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1460 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1461 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1462 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1463 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1465 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1466 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1467 past that check, despite the cost.
1469 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1470 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1471 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1473 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1474 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1475 TLS library to consume.
1477 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1479 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1481 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1482 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1483 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1484 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1485 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1486 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1487 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1489 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1491 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1493 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1494 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1495 should be warning-free.
1497 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1499 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1500 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1502 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1503 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1504 general solution here.
1506 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1507 already-broken messages in the queue.
1509 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1511 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1517 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1518 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1520 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1521 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1522 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1524 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1525 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1526 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1527 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1528 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1529 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1530 if one fails this test.
1531 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1532 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1534 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1535 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1537 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1538 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1540 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1541 in rewrites and routers.
1543 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1544 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1546 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1547 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1549 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1551 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1554 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1555 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1556 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1557 connection after a verify cache hit.
1558 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1560 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1561 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1563 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1564 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1565 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1566 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1567 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1569 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1570 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1572 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1573 Previously they were not counted.
1575 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1576 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1577 that needed the lookup.
1579 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1580 distinguished as "(=".
1582 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1583 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1585 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1587 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1588 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1590 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1591 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1593 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1594 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1597 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1598 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1599 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1600 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1602 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1604 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1605 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1606 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1608 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1609 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1610 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1613 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1614 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1615 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1618 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1619 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1620 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1622 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1623 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1626 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1628 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1629 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1631 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1632 are not in the system include path.
1634 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1635 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1636 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1637 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1639 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1640 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1641 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1643 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1645 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1646 an incoming connection.
1648 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1651 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1652 fallback to "prime256v1".
1654 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1655 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1661 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1662 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1663 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1664 client dropping the TLS connection.
1666 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1667 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1669 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1670 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1671 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1672 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1675 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1676 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1677 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1678 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1679 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1680 check on the next write.
1682 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1683 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1684 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1685 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1686 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1688 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1689 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1691 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1692 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1693 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1695 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1696 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1697 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1698 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1700 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1701 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1703 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1704 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1706 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1707 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1708 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1711 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1713 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1715 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1717 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1718 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1720 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1721 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1723 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1725 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1726 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1728 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1730 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1731 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1733 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1735 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1736 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1737 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1738 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1739 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1740 they will retry in-clear.
1741 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1742 at installation time.
1744 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1745 with the $config_file variable.
1747 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1748 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1749 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1750 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1751 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1753 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1754 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1755 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1756 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1757 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1759 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1761 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1762 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1763 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1764 list order is no longer honoured.
1766 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1767 for DKIM processing.
1769 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1770 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1772 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1773 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1774 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1775 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1777 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1778 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1780 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1781 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1783 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1784 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1786 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1788 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1789 cached by the daemon.
1791 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1792 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1794 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1795 keys are given for lookup.
1797 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1798 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1799 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1800 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1802 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1803 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1804 server-side so match that on older versions.
1806 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1807 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1808 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1810 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1811 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1813 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1814 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1815 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1816 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1817 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1818 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1819 initial truncated version.
1821 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1823 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1825 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1826 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1828 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1830 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1832 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1833 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1836 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1837 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1840 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1841 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1843 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1844 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1847 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1848 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1849 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1851 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1852 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1853 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1854 extraction. Accept either.
1860 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1863 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1865 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1868 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1869 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1870 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1871 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1873 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1874 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1875 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1877 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1878 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1879 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1882 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1885 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1886 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1887 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1888 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1889 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1891 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1892 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1893 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1895 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1897 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1898 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1900 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1901 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1903 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1906 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1907 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1909 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1910 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1911 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1913 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1914 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1915 specify a port-range.
1917 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1918 timeout value per server.
1920 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1921 now have the list separator specified.
1923 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1926 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1929 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1931 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1932 rather than the verbs used.
1934 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1935 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1937 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1939 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1940 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1942 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1943 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1945 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1946 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1948 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1950 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1952 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1953 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1954 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1955 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1957 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1959 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1960 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1962 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1963 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1965 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1967 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1969 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1971 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1972 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1974 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1975 added for tls authenticator.
1977 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1983 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1984 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1985 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1986 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1987 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1988 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1989 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1991 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1992 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1993 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1994 function when detected.
1996 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1997 cause callback expansion.
1999 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2000 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2001 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2002 instead of bool when processing it.
2004 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2005 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2007 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2009 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2011 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2013 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2014 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2016 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2017 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2018 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2019 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2020 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2021 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2023 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2024 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2027 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2028 version 3.3.6 or later.
2030 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2031 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2032 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2033 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2034 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2035 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2038 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2039 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2041 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2042 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2043 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2046 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2047 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2048 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2050 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2051 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2053 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2054 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2057 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2059 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2060 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2062 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2063 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2066 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2068 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2071 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2072 output list separator was used.
2077 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2078 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2081 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2082 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2084 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2086 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2087 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2093 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2095 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2096 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2097 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2098 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2099 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2100 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2102 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2103 utilities have not been installed.
2105 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2106 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2108 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2109 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2111 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2112 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2113 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2114 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2116 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2118 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2119 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2121 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2124 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2126 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2127 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2128 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2130 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2131 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2132 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2133 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2134 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2135 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2137 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2139 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2140 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2142 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2145 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2147 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2149 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2150 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2152 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2153 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2155 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2157 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2159 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2160 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2162 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2163 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2164 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2166 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2167 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2168 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2171 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2173 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2174 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2177 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2178 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2181 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2182 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2184 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2185 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2187 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2189 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2190 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2191 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2193 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2194 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2196 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2197 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2200 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2201 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2202 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2204 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2206 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2207 Christian Aistleitner.
2209 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2211 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2212 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2214 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2215 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2217 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2218 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2220 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2221 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2223 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2224 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2226 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2227 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2228 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2230 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2232 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2233 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2236 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2238 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2239 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2246 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2248 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2249 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2251 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2254 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2255 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2258 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2260 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2261 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2262 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2263 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2264 using channel bindings instead).
2266 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2267 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2268 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2269 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2270 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2273 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2275 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2277 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2278 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2280 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2281 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2282 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2284 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2286 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2288 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2289 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2291 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2293 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2295 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2297 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2298 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2300 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2302 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2303 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2306 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2307 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2309 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2310 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2313 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2315 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2317 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2318 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2320 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2323 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2324 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2326 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2327 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2329 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2331 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2333 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2336 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2339 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2341 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2342 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2343 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2344 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2346 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2348 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2349 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2350 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2351 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2354 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2355 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2356 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2358 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2359 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2360 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2361 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2363 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2364 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2365 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2366 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2367 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2368 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2369 delivery, as in LMTP.
2371 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2372 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2374 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2376 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2380 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2381 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2382 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2383 username as equal to the username.
2385 This change corrects that bug.
2387 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2388 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2389 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2391 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2393 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2394 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2395 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2396 NULL dereference and crash.
2398 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2400 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2401 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2402 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2404 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2406 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2407 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2408 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2409 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2410 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2411 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2412 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2413 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2414 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2415 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2416 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2418 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2419 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2421 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2422 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2425 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2426 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2427 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2428 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2429 an empty string is now equivalent.
2431 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2432 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2433 not performing validation itself.
2435 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2436 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2438 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2441 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2443 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2444 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2445 other false fix of the same issue.
2446 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2449 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2450 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2452 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2453 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2454 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2456 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2457 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2458 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2460 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2462 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2464 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2465 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2467 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2470 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2471 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2472 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2473 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2474 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2476 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2477 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2479 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2480 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2483 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2484 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2485 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2486 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2488 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2490 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2491 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2492 from multiple comments on this bug.
2494 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2496 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2497 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2500 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2501 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2503 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2504 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2510 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2512 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2518 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2519 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2520 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2522 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2524 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2527 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2529 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2531 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2533 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2534 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2536 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2537 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2539 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2540 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2542 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2543 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2544 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2546 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2548 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2549 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2551 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2553 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2555 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2556 non-compliant senders.
2557 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2559 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2560 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2561 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2563 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2564 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2565 in spool file corruption.
2567 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2568 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2569 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2572 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2573 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2574 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2576 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2577 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2579 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2581 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2583 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2585 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2586 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2587 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2589 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2590 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2591 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2592 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2594 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2595 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2597 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2598 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2599 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2600 resolver implementation change.
2602 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2603 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2605 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2607 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2609 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2610 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2612 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2613 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2615 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2616 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2618 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2619 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2620 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2621 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2622 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2624 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2626 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2627 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2628 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2630 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2632 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2633 read-only, out of scope).
2634 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2636 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2637 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2638 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2639 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2641 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2643 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2644 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2645 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2646 real issues in debug logging.
2648 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2649 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2651 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2652 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2653 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2655 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2656 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2657 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2660 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2661 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2663 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2664 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2665 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2666 needs to override this, it can.
2668 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2669 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2670 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2672 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2673 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2674 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2675 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2677 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2683 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2684 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2686 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2688 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2691 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2692 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2694 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2695 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2696 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2698 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2699 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2700 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2701 not safe for signals.
2703 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2704 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2705 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2706 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2709 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2711 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2712 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2713 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2714 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2715 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2717 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2718 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2719 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2720 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2721 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2722 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2724 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2725 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2726 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2727 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2729 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2730 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2731 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2732 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2734 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2735 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2736 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2737 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2738 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2739 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2740 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2741 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2742 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2744 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2745 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2746 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2747 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2749 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2750 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2751 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2752 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2753 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2754 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2755 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2756 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2757 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2758 details in the main documentation.
2760 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2762 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2764 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2765 repository when doing development or release builds.
2767 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2768 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2770 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2771 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2774 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2776 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2777 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2779 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2780 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2782 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2783 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2785 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2786 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2788 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2789 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2791 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2793 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2796 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2797 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2798 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2800 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2802 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2804 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2805 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2811 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2813 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2814 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2816 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2818 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2820 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2823 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2824 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2826 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2827 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2829 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2830 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2832 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2835 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2836 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2838 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2839 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2840 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2841 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2843 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2844 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2850 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2853 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2854 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2855 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2857 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2858 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2860 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2861 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2862 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2864 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2865 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2867 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2868 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2870 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2871 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2873 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2874 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2876 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2877 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2879 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2882 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2883 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2885 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2886 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2888 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2889 SQL string expansion failure details.
2890 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2892 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2893 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2895 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2896 extern declarations in function scope.
2897 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2899 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2900 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2901 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2904 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2905 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2907 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2908 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2910 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2911 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2913 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2914 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2916 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2917 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2920 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2922 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2924 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2925 Patch by Simon Arlott
2927 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2928 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2934 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2935 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2937 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2938 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2940 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2942 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2943 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2944 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2946 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2947 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2948 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2950 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2951 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2952 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2953 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2955 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2956 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2957 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2958 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2960 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2961 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2962 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2965 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2968 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2969 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2970 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2971 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2972 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2978 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2979 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2980 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2982 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2983 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2985 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2987 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2989 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2991 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2993 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2995 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2996 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2997 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2998 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3000 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3001 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3002 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3003 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3004 more caution in buffer sizes.
3006 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3008 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3010 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3012 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3014 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3016 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3018 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3020 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3021 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3022 ignore trailing whitespace.
3024 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3026 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3029 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3030 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3032 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3033 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3034 Notification from John Horne.
3036 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3039 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3040 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3043 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3046 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3047 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3048 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3050 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3051 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3052 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3055 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3056 option (effectively making it always true).
3058 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3059 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3061 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3062 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3064 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3065 run-time user, instead of root.
3067 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3068 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3070 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3071 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3074 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3075 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3076 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3078 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3080 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3086 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3087 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3090 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3091 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3094 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3095 Patch from Alain Williams
3097 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3099 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3100 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3102 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3103 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3105 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3107 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3109 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3110 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3112 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3114 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3116 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3117 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3118 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3120 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3121 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3123 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3124 Patch by Simon Arlott
3126 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3127 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3133 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3135 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3137 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3139 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3141 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3147 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3148 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3150 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3151 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3154 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3155 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3156 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3158 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3159 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3161 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3162 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3163 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3164 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3166 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3167 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3168 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3170 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3172 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3174 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3175 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3177 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3179 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3180 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3181 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3182 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3184 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3185 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3187 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3189 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3191 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3192 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3194 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3195 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3197 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3198 that they are available at delivery time.
3200 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3202 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3203 incoming_port log selectors.
3205 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3206 setting expands to an empty string.
3208 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3209 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3211 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3212 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3214 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3215 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3217 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3218 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3220 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3221 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3223 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3224 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3226 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3228 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3229 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3231 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3232 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3234 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3236 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3237 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3239 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3241 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3243 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3246 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3247 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3249 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3250 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3252 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3253 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3255 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3256 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3258 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3259 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3261 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3262 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3264 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3265 plus update to original patch.
3267 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3269 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3270 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3272 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3274 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3276 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3278 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3280 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3281 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3283 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3284 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3286 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3287 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3289 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3290 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3292 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3294 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3296 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3298 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3304 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3305 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3306 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3308 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3309 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3310 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3311 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3312 build errors in sieve.c.
3314 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3315 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3316 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3318 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3320 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3322 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3324 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3330 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3332 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3333 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3334 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3335 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3336 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3337 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3338 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3339 for iplsearch lookups.
3341 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3342 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3343 previously such lookups could never work.
3345 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3346 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3347 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3349 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3352 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3353 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3354 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3355 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3356 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3357 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3359 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3360 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3362 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3363 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3364 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3365 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3366 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3367 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3369 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3372 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3374 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3375 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3378 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3379 by clients under certain conditions.
3381 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3382 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3384 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3386 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3387 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3389 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3391 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3393 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3395 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3396 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3398 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3400 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3401 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3403 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3405 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3407 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3408 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3409 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3410 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3412 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3413 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3414 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3416 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3417 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3419 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3421 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3423 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3425 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3426 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3427 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3433 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3434 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3437 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3438 issue a MAIL command.
3440 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3442 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3444 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3445 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3446 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3447 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3448 item. This has been fixed.
3450 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3451 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3453 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3454 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3456 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3457 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3458 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3460 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3462 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3463 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3464 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3465 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3466 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3468 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3469 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3470 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3472 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3473 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3474 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3475 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3477 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3479 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3481 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3482 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3483 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3484 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3485 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3487 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3489 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3490 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3491 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3494 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3496 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3498 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3500 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3502 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3504 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3505 no_callout_flush is set.
3507 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3508 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3509 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3512 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3514 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3515 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3516 other ACL rejections are.
3518 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3519 with slight modification.
3521 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3522 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3524 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3525 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3528 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3529 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3531 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3533 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3534 expansion side effects.
3536 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3537 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3538 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3541 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3542 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3543 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3545 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3546 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3547 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3548 were accidentally chopped off.
3550 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3551 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3552 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3553 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3554 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3555 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3556 pipelining has not been advertised.
3558 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3560 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3561 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3562 This has been fixed.
3564 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3565 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3566 reported on Solaris.
3568 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3569 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3570 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3571 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3572 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3573 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3574 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3576 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3579 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3581 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3583 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3584 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3585 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3586 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3587 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3588 criteria to be more general.
3590 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3591 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3592 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3593 host_all_ignored option.
3595 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3596 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3597 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3598 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3599 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3600 is what is supposed to happen).
3602 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3603 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3604 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3605 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3606 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3609 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3610 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3611 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3612 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3613 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3614 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3617 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3619 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3620 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3622 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3623 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3625 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3627 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3629 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3630 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3631 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3632 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3633 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3634 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3635 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3636 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3637 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3638 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3639 least in a lot of common cases.
3641 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3642 advertised in response to EHLO.
3648 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3649 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3651 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3652 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3654 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3655 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3656 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3658 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3659 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3660 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3661 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3662 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3668 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3669 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3672 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3673 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3674 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3676 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3677 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3678 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3679 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3680 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3681 rather than extend the field.
3687 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3688 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3689 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3690 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3693 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3694 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3695 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3697 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3698 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3699 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3701 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3702 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3703 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3706 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3707 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3708 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3709 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3710 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3711 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3712 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3713 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3714 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3715 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3716 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3718 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3721 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3722 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3723 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3724 ignores EPIPE as well.
3726 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3727 (quoted-printable decoding).
3729 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3730 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3732 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3734 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3736 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3738 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3739 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3741 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3744 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3745 miscellaneous code fixes
3747 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3750 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3751 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3752 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3753 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3754 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3755 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3756 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3757 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3759 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3760 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3761 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3762 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3764 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3765 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3766 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3767 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3768 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3769 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3770 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3771 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3772 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3774 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3777 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3778 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3779 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3780 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3781 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3782 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3783 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3784 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3786 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3787 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3790 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3791 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3792 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3793 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3794 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3795 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3796 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3797 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3798 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3799 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3800 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3801 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3802 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3804 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3805 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3806 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3807 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3808 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3809 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3810 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3812 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3813 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3814 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3815 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3816 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3817 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3818 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3819 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3820 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3821 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3823 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3824 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3825 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3826 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3827 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3829 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3830 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3831 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3832 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3833 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3834 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3835 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3837 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3838 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3839 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3840 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3841 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3842 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3845 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3846 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3847 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3850 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3851 if any retry times were supplied.
3853 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3854 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3855 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3857 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3859 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3861 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3862 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3863 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3864 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3865 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3866 before) are ignored.
3868 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3869 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3871 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3872 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3873 committing the later change.]
3875 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3876 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3877 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3878 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3879 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3880 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3881 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3882 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3883 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3885 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3886 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3887 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3888 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3889 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3890 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3891 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3892 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3893 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3895 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3896 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3897 hammering the server.
3899 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3900 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3902 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3904 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3905 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3906 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3908 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3909 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3910 one case where this was not true.
3912 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3913 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3914 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3915 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3918 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3919 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3920 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3921 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3922 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3923 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3924 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3925 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3926 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3929 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3930 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3931 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3932 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3934 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3935 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3937 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3938 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3939 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3941 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3943 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3945 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3947 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3948 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3949 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3950 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3952 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3953 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3955 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3956 be meaningful with "accept".
3958 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3959 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3961 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3962 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3963 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3965 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3966 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3967 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3968 there is data to show.
3969 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3971 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3972 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3973 as well as the number of messages.
3975 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3976 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3977 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3979 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3980 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3981 have a flag are now skipped.
3983 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3984 Added the -emptyok flag.
3986 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3987 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3989 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3990 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3991 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3993 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3996 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3997 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3999 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4001 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4002 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4004 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4006 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4007 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4008 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4009 contravention of the specifications.
4011 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4012 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4013 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4015 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4016 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4017 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4019 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4021 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4022 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4023 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4024 some point in the past.
4026 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4027 transport during callout processing was broken.
4029 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4030 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4032 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4033 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4035 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4036 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4038 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4044 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4045 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4047 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4048 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4049 there is data to show.
4050 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4052 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4053 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4055 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4056 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4058 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4059 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4061 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4062 submissions from trusted users.
4064 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4065 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4067 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4068 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4069 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4070 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4071 there is now a framework to start from.
4073 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4074 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4075 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4077 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4079 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4081 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4083 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4084 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4085 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4087 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4090 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4091 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4092 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4094 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4095 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4096 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4099 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4100 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4101 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4102 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4103 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4105 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4106 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4108 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4110 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4111 operations in malware.c.
4113 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4116 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4117 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4118 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4121 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4122 statements to "add_header".
4124 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4125 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4127 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4128 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4131 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4135 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4136 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4137 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4140 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4141 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4143 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4144 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4146 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4147 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4148 any possible encoding problems.
4150 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4151 but not after initializing Perl.
4153 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4154 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4155 apparently, which is not desirable.
4157 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4160 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4163 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4165 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4166 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4167 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4168 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4170 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4171 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4172 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4174 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4175 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4176 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4179 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4180 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4181 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4182 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4183 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4189 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4190 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4192 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4195 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4196 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4197 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4198 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4199 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4200 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4201 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4202 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4205 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4207 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4208 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4209 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4211 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4212 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4213 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4216 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4217 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4219 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4220 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4221 option (which defaults to 0600).
4223 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4225 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4226 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4227 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4228 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4229 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4230 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4231 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4233 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4239 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4240 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4241 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4242 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4243 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4244 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4247 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4248 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4250 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4252 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4253 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4254 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4255 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4256 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4259 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4260 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4262 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4263 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4264 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4265 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4266 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4268 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4269 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4270 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4271 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4273 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4274 be the same on different OS.
4276 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4279 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4280 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4282 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4285 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4286 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4287 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4288 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4289 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4290 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4293 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4294 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4295 when Exim was called.
4297 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4298 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4300 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4301 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4302 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4303 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4305 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4306 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4307 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4308 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4311 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4312 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4313 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4315 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4316 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4317 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4319 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4322 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4323 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4324 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4325 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4326 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4327 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4328 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4329 values from the SRV records were lost.
4331 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4332 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4333 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4335 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4336 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4337 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4339 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4340 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4341 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4342 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4343 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4344 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4345 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4346 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4347 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4348 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4350 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4351 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4352 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4354 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4355 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4357 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4358 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4359 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4360 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4363 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4364 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4365 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4367 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4368 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4369 PH/23 above applies.
4371 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4372 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4373 (for which there is an explicit test).
4375 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4377 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4378 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4379 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4380 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4381 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4383 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4384 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4385 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4386 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4388 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4389 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4390 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4392 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4394 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4396 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4397 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4398 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4400 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4401 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4402 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4403 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4404 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4406 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4407 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4408 the message gets confusing).
4410 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4411 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4412 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4413 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4415 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4416 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4417 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4418 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4421 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4422 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4423 the different processes.
4425 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4427 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4429 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4430 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4432 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4433 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4435 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4436 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4437 messages matching specified criteria.
4439 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4441 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4442 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4444 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4445 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4446 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4447 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4448 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4449 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4450 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4451 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4452 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4453 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4455 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4456 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4457 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4459 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4461 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4462 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4463 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4464 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4465 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4466 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4467 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4470 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4471 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4473 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4475 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4477 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4479 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4480 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4481 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4482 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4483 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4484 size of the count of files.
4486 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4488 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4491 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4492 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4493 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4494 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4496 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4497 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4498 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4500 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4501 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4502 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4503 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4504 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4506 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4507 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4509 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4510 will now be deprecated.
4512 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4514 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4515 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4516 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4518 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4519 with very large, slow to parse queues
4521 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4523 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4525 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4526 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4527 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4530 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4531 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4532 Sieve code now uses this.
4534 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4535 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4537 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4538 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4540 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4542 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4543 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4544 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4545 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4546 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4548 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4549 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4550 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4551 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4553 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4555 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4557 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4558 is preferred over IPv4.
4560 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4561 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4562 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4563 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4564 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4565 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4566 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4568 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4569 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4570 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4572 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4574 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4575 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4576 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4577 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4578 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4579 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4580 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4581 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4582 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4583 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4584 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4586 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4587 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4588 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4594 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4596 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4597 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4599 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4600 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4601 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4603 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4605 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4608 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4611 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4612 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4613 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4616 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4617 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4619 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4620 inside the third argument.
4622 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4623 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4626 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4627 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4629 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4630 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4632 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4634 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4635 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4638 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4640 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4641 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4642 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4643 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4644 identical. For example:
4646 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4648 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4649 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4650 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4652 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4653 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4654 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4655 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4657 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4658 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4659 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4662 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4664 o fixes some comments
4665 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4666 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4667 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4668 and documents the missing references header update
4672 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4673 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4676 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4677 Electronic Mail") by including:
4679 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4681 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4682 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4683 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4684 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4685 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4687 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4689 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4691 The auto-replied keyword:
4693 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4694 message by an automatic process,
4696 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4698 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4699 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4701 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4702 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4705 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4706 to the default Received: header definition.
4708 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4710 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4711 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4712 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4714 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4715 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4716 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4718 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4719 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4720 and treats the condition as false.
4722 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4724 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4725 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4726 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4727 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4728 not changing the active code.
4730 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4731 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4733 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4734 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4736 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4739 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4740 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4741 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4742 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4743 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4744 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4745 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4746 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4747 the text comparison.
4749 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4750 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4751 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4752 The same fix has been applied.
4758 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4759 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4762 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4763 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4765 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4767 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4768 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4769 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4770 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4771 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4773 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4774 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4775 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4776 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4779 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4787 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4788 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4790 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4792 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4794 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4795 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4796 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4798 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4799 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4800 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4802 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4803 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4806 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4807 ${stat: expansion item.
4809 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4810 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4812 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4813 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4816 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4818 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4821 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4822 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4824 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4826 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4827 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4828 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4829 the end of the subprocess.
4831 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4832 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4833 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4834 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4835 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4837 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4839 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4841 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4842 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4844 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4846 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4848 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4849 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4852 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4854 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4855 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4856 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4858 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4859 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4861 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4862 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4864 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4865 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4867 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4868 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4870 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4871 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4872 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4873 contributed by a Radius user.
4875 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4876 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4878 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4879 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4881 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4884 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4885 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4888 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4889 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4890 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4891 header lines when this was not necessary.
4893 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4895 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4896 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4897 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4900 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4903 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4904 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4905 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4906 return code was incorrect.
4908 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4910 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4912 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4914 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4916 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4917 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4918 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4919 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4920 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4923 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4925 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4926 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4927 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4928 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4929 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4930 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4931 which is clearly wrong.
4933 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4935 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4936 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4937 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4940 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4941 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4943 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4945 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4946 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4948 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4949 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4951 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4952 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4954 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4955 recipients, not senders.
4957 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4958 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4960 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4962 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4964 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4965 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4966 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4967 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4969 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4971 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4972 clock is set back in time.
4974 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4975 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4977 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4978 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4980 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4981 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4984 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4985 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4988 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4991 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4993 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4994 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4995 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4997 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4998 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4999 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5000 helo verification defer as a failure.
5002 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5003 actual error message.
5009 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5011 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5012 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5013 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5014 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5016 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5018 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5019 can still be requested.
5021 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5022 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5023 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5024 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5026 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5027 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5028 circumstances, but probably never did.
5030 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5031 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5032 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5035 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5037 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5038 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5040 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5042 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5044 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5045 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5046 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5047 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5048 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5049 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5051 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5052 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5053 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5054 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5055 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5056 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5058 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5059 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5061 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5062 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5064 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5065 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5067 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5069 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5071 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5073 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5075 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5077 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5079 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5081 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5082 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5083 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5085 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5086 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5087 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5088 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5090 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5091 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5092 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5094 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5095 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5096 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5097 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5099 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5100 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5103 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5104 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5105 should work with maildirs and everything.
5107 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5108 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5110 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5113 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5114 function for BDB 4.3.
5116 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5118 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5119 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5122 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5123 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5124 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5125 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5126 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5127 formatting function string_vformat().
5129 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5130 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5131 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5132 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5133 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5134 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5135 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5136 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5138 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5139 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5142 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5143 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5145 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5146 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5147 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5148 test. It is now used for both.
5150 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5151 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5152 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5153 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5154 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5155 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5157 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5158 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5159 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5162 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5163 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5164 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5166 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5167 experimental DomainKeys support:
5169 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5170 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5171 the control was given.
5173 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5175 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5177 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5179 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5180 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5181 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5184 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5185 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5186 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5187 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5188 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5189 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5192 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5193 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5194 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5195 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5196 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5197 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5199 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5200 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5201 do -d+all out of habit.
5203 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5204 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5207 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5208 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5209 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5210 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5211 record types that Exim uses.
5213 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5214 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5215 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5216 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5217 non-existent file that was broken.
5219 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5220 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5222 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5223 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5224 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5226 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5228 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5229 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5230 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5231 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5232 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5235 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5236 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5237 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5238 at a slight CPU cost.
5240 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5241 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5243 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5246 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5248 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5249 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5255 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5256 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5258 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5260 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5262 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5263 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5265 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5266 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5267 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5268 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5269 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5270 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5273 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5274 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5275 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5276 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5279 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5280 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5281 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5282 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5283 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5284 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5285 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5288 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5289 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5291 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5292 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5293 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5294 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5295 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5296 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5298 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5299 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5300 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5301 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5303 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5306 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5307 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5309 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5310 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5311 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5312 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5315 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5317 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5318 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5320 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5321 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5322 to what was transported.)
5324 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5326 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5327 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5328 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5329 spamd_address settings.
5331 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5332 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5333 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5334 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5335 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5337 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5339 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5340 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5341 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5342 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5343 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5345 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5346 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5348 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5349 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5350 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5351 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5352 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5353 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5354 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5357 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5358 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5359 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5360 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5361 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5362 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5363 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5366 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5368 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5369 driver and ACL definitions.
5371 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5372 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5374 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5375 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5376 understands it better than I do:
5378 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5379 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5381 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5382 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5383 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5384 => three warnings about OTP not working
5385 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5387 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5388 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5389 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5390 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5392 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5393 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5395 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5396 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5397 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5399 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5400 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5403 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5404 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5407 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5408 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5409 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5411 warn !verify = sender
5412 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5414 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5415 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5417 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5419 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5420 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5422 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5423 nomenclature these days.)
5425 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5426 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5428 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5429 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5430 . First host does not offer TLS;
5431 . First host accepts first address;
5432 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5433 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5434 . Second host accepts second address.
5435 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5436 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5439 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5440 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5441 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5442 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5443 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5445 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5446 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5448 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5449 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5451 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5452 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5453 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5455 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5456 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5459 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5461 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5462 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5463 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5464 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5465 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5466 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5467 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5469 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5470 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5471 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5472 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5473 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5475 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5476 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5479 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5480 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5481 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5482 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5483 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5484 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5486 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5488 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5489 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5490 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5491 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5492 printable escape sequences.
5494 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5495 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5498 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5499 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5502 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5503 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5504 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5505 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5506 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5508 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5509 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5510 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5512 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5514 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5515 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5518 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5519 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5520 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5521 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5522 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5523 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5524 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5525 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5526 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5529 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5530 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5531 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5532 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5536 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5537 ----------------------------------------
5539 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5540 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5541 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5542 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5543 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5544 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5547 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5548 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5549 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5550 historical information.
5556 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5558 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5559 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5561 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5562 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5565 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5566 filter fails to execute.
5568 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5569 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5570 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5571 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5572 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5574 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5576 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5577 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5578 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5579 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5581 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5582 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5583 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5584 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5585 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5587 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5589 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5591 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5592 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5593 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5594 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5596 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5597 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5598 sender verification.
5600 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5601 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5603 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5605 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5608 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5609 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5611 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5612 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5614 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5615 information about exactly what failed.
5617 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5619 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5620 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5621 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5623 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5624 It is now set to "smtps".
5626 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5627 ignore_target_hosts.
5629 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5630 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5631 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5632 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5635 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5636 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5637 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5639 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5640 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5641 wake it up if nothing else does.
5643 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5644 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5645 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5648 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5649 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5651 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5653 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5654 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5655 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5656 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5657 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5658 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5659 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5660 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5662 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5663 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5664 than one IP address.
5666 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5667 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5668 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5669 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5671 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5672 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5673 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5674 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5675 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5678 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5679 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5680 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5681 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5683 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5684 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5687 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5688 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5689 $sender_host_address.
5691 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5692 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5693 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5694 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5695 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5698 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5700 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5701 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5703 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5704 just the host names, not the priorities.
5706 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5707 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5708 controlled by a keyword.
5710 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5711 multiple records are returned.
5713 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5714 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5717 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5719 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5720 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5722 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5723 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5724 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5726 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5728 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5730 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5732 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5733 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5734 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5735 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5736 because the tests only now provoked it.
5738 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5739 (this can affect the format of dates).
5741 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5742 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5743 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5744 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5746 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5748 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5749 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5750 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5751 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5753 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5754 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5755 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5757 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5760 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5761 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5762 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5763 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5764 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5765 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5768 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5769 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5770 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5773 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5774 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5775 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5777 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5778 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5779 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5780 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5781 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5782 so I produce this patch..."
5784 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5785 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5788 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5789 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5790 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5791 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5794 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5796 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5797 long debug lines gets shown.
5799 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5800 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5802 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5804 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5805 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5806 of $primary_hostname.
5808 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5809 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5810 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5811 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5812 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5813 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5814 by change 4.50/55 above.
5816 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5817 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5818 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5819 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5820 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5821 running as the user.
5824 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5825 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5826 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5829 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5830 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5832 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5833 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5834 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5835 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5836 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5838 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5839 This has been fixed.
5841 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5842 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5843 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5844 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5847 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5849 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5850 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5851 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5852 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5854 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5855 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5857 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5858 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5859 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5861 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5862 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5863 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5866 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5867 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5868 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5870 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5871 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5872 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5873 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5875 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5876 during host lookups.
5878 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5879 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5881 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5883 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5884 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5885 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5886 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5887 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5890 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5891 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5893 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5894 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5895 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5897 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5899 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5900 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5901 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5902 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5903 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5904 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5907 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5908 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5909 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5910 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5911 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5913 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5916 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5918 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5919 "vacation" handling.
5921 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5922 OS variants using glibc.
5924 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5927 ----------------------------------------------------
5928 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5929 ----------------------------------------------------
5935 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5936 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5939 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5940 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5943 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5944 filter fails to execute.
5946 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5947 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5948 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5949 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5950 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5952 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5953 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5954 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5955 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5957 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5958 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5959 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5960 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5961 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5963 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5965 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5966 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5967 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5968 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5970 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5971 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5972 sender verification.
5974 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5975 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5977 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5978 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5980 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5981 ignore_target_hosts.
5983 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5984 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5985 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5986 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5989 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5990 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5991 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5993 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5994 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5995 wake it up if nothing else does.
5997 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5998 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5999 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6002 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6003 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6005 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6007 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6008 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6011 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6012 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6015 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6016 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6017 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6018 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6019 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6022 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6023 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6026 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6027 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6028 $sender_host_address.
6030 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6032 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6033 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6034 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6036 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6039 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6040 (this can affect the format of dates).
6042 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6043 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6044 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6045 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6047 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6048 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6049 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6051 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6052 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6053 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6054 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6056 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6057 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6058 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6060 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6063 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6064 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6065 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6066 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6067 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6068 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6071 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6072 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6073 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6074 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6077 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6078 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6079 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6080 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6081 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6082 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6083 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6085 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6086 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6087 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6088 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6089 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6090 running as the user.
6093 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6094 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6095 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6098 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6099 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6100 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6101 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6102 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6104 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6105 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6106 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6107 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6110 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6111 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6112 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6113 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6114 because the tests only now provoked it.
6120 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6121 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6122 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6123 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6124 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6125 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6126 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6128 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6129 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6132 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6134 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6136 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6137 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6140 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6141 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6142 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6143 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6144 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6146 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6147 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6149 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6151 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6153 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6156 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6157 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6159 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6160 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6161 affecting debugging statements).
6163 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6165 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6166 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6167 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6168 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6169 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6170 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6171 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6172 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6173 after the received time, and all would be well.
6175 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6176 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6177 condition in an expansion string.
6179 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6181 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6182 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6183 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6184 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6185 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6186 job under whatever limits there are.
6188 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6190 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6193 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6194 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6195 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6196 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6199 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6200 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6201 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6202 binary data in such strings.
6204 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6206 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6207 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6208 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6209 failure, which is pointless.
6211 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6213 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6215 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6216 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6217 Sender: header lines.
6219 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6220 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6221 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6223 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6224 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6225 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6226 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6227 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6230 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6231 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6232 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6233 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6234 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6236 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6237 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6238 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6241 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6242 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6244 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6245 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6247 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6249 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6251 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6253 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6256 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6258 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6260 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6261 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6262 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6263 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6265 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6266 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6272 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6273 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6274 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6276 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6277 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6278 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6279 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6280 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6281 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6283 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6284 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6285 verification failure".
6287 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6288 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6289 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6290 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6292 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6293 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6294 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6295 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6296 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6297 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6298 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6299 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6300 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6301 treated as a timeout.
6303 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6304 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6305 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6306 not set for Exim filters).
6308 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6309 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6310 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6312 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6314 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6315 try to make them clearer.
6317 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6318 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6320 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6322 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6324 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6325 only the Cygwin environment.
6327 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6328 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6329 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6330 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6331 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6333 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6334 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6335 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6336 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6337 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6338 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6339 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6341 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6342 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6344 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6346 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6347 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6348 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6350 To: susanne@some.where
6352 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6353 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6354 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6355 of addresses in From: header lines).
6357 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6358 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6359 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6361 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6362 treated as non-personal.
6364 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6365 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6367 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6369 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6371 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6372 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6373 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6375 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6376 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6378 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6379 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6380 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6381 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6382 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6383 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6385 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6386 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6387 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6388 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6389 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6390 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6391 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6392 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6394 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6396 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6397 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6399 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6400 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6401 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6403 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6404 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6406 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6407 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6408 rather than long int.
6410 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6412 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6418 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6419 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6420 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6421 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6422 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6423 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6429 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6430 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6432 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6433 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6434 socklen_t is defined.
6436 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6439 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6442 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6443 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6444 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6445 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6446 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6448 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6449 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6450 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6451 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6453 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6454 of flapping under certain conditions.
6456 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6457 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6458 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6460 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6462 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6464 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6465 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6466 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6467 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6469 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6470 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6471 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6472 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6473 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6474 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6475 preserved with the message after it was received.
6477 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6478 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6479 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6480 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6481 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6482 test suite worked just fine.
6484 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6485 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6486 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6488 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6489 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6492 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6493 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6494 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6495 does not fully solve it.
6497 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6498 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6499 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6500 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6501 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6503 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6504 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6505 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6507 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6508 string, for example:
6510 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6512 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6513 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6514 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6515 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6516 the routers could not see them.
6518 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6519 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6521 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6522 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6525 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6526 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6527 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6528 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6529 that needed quoting.
6531 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6532 was not being matched caselessly.
6534 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6537 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6538 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6539 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6540 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6541 when use_sender is false.
6543 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6545 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6547 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6549 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6550 the configuration file.
6552 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6553 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6555 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6557 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6558 bytes in the message body.
6560 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6561 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6564 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6566 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6568 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6569 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6570 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6571 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6578 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6579 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6581 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6582 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6583 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6584 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6585 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6587 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6588 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6590 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6591 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6592 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6594 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6595 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6596 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6598 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6601 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6602 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6603 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6604 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6605 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6606 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6607 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6613 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6614 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6615 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6616 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6617 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6618 default (and expected) setting.
6620 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6621 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6622 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6623 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6625 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6626 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6628 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6631 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6632 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6633 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6634 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6635 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6636 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6638 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6639 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6640 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6642 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6643 part (NOT match_host).
6645 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6647 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6648 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6649 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6650 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6651 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6652 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6653 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6654 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6655 the same named file.
6657 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6658 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6661 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6662 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6663 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6664 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6667 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6668 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6669 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6671 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6673 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6675 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6677 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6678 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6680 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6681 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6682 before starting the TLS session.
6684 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6686 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6687 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6689 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6690 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6691 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6692 colon in the middle).
6698 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6699 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6700 multiple configurations are in use.
6702 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6703 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6704 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6705 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6706 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6707 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6709 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6710 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6712 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6713 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6714 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6716 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6717 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6720 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6721 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6723 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6725 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6726 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6728 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6736 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6737 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6738 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6739 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6740 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6742 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6745 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6746 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6747 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6748 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6749 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6750 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6752 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6753 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6754 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6755 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6756 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6757 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6758 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6761 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6762 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6763 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6764 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6765 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6767 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6769 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6770 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6771 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6773 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6775 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6776 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6777 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6780 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6781 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6783 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6784 Three changes have been made:
6786 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6787 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6788 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6789 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6790 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6792 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6795 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6796 the modified behaviour.
6802 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6805 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6806 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6808 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6809 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6810 try to track down a specific problem.
6812 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6813 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6814 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6816 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6819 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6820 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6821 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6822 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6823 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6824 some earlier ones do not.
6826 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6828 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6829 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6830 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6831 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6832 address literals are enabled, of course).
6834 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6836 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6837 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6838 by a command such as
6842 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6844 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6846 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6847 remained set. It is now erased.
6849 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6850 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6852 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6853 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6854 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6855 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6856 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6857 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6858 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6859 appropriate error code.
6861 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6862 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6863 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6864 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6865 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6866 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6868 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6869 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6870 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6872 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6873 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6874 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6875 terminate the header.
6877 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6878 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6879 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6881 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6882 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6883 (4.30/29). In particular:
6885 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6888 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6889 to write a maildirsize file.
6891 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6892 the transport, the new value overrides.
6894 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6897 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6898 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6899 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6902 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6903 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6904 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6907 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6908 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6909 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6911 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6912 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6915 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6916 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6917 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6919 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6921 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6923 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6925 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6926 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6929 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6930 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6931 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6932 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6933 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6934 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6935 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6938 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6939 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6940 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6941 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6942 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6945 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6946 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6947 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6948 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6949 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6950 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6951 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6952 cached value only when the same options are set.
6954 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6956 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6957 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6958 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6959 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6960 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6962 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6963 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6964 it is clearly obsolete.
6966 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6969 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6970 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6971 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6974 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6975 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6976 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6977 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6978 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6980 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6981 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6982 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6983 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6985 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6987 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6989 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6990 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6993 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6994 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6995 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6996 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6997 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6998 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7001 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7002 with the -f command-line option.
7004 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7005 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7006 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7007 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7008 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7009 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7011 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7012 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7015 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7016 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7017 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7018 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7019 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7020 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7021 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7022 buffer is too small.
7024 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7025 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7027 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7028 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7029 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7030 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7031 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7032 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7033 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7034 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7035 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7037 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7038 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7039 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7041 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7042 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7045 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7046 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7047 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7048 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7049 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7051 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7052 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7053 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7054 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7057 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7059 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7061 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7062 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7064 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7065 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7066 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7068 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7069 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7070 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7071 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7072 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7074 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7075 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7076 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7077 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7078 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7079 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7080 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7082 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7083 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7084 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7085 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7086 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7087 the test of how many are available.
7089 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7090 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7091 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7092 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7093 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7094 new message is started.
7096 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7097 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7099 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7100 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7102 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7103 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7104 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7107 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7108 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7109 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7110 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7111 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7112 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7113 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7115 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7116 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7117 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7118 interpreted as octal.
7120 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7123 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7124 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7125 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7126 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7127 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7128 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7130 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7131 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7132 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7133 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7135 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7136 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7137 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7138 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7140 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7141 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7144 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7145 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7147 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7149 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7150 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7151 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7152 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7154 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7155 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7156 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7157 supplied", which is not helpful.
7159 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7160 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7161 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7163 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7164 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7165 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7166 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7167 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7168 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7169 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7170 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7172 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7173 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7174 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7175 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7176 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7178 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7179 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7180 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7181 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7182 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7183 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7185 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7186 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7187 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7189 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7191 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7192 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7193 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7196 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7198 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7199 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7200 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7201 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7202 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7203 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7204 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7205 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7207 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7208 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7209 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7210 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7211 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7213 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7216 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7217 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7218 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7219 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7220 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7221 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7222 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7223 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7224 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7230 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7231 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7232 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7234 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7237 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7238 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7239 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7241 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7242 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7243 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7244 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7245 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7246 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7248 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7249 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7250 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7251 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7252 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7253 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7254 the Exim test suite.
7256 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7257 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7258 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7259 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7261 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7262 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7263 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7264 specify it in this variable.
7266 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7267 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7268 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7269 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7271 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7272 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7273 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7274 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7276 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7277 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7278 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7279 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7280 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7282 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7284 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7287 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7288 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7289 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7290 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7291 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7293 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7294 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7296 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7297 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7298 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7299 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7300 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7302 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7303 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7305 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7306 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7307 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7309 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7310 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7312 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7313 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7315 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7316 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7317 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7319 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7320 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7322 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7323 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7324 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7325 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7327 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7329 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7330 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7331 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7332 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7334 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7336 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7337 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7339 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7341 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7342 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7343 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7344 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7345 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7346 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7348 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7350 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7351 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7354 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7356 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7357 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7359 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7360 550 Sender verify failed
7362 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7363 the final line of the response.
7365 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7366 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7367 all other user lookups.
7369 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7372 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7373 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7374 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7375 result into an int without checking.
7377 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7378 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7379 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7381 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7382 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7383 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7384 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7386 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7389 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7390 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7392 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7393 to the empty sender.
7395 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7396 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7397 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7398 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7399 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7400 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7401 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7404 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7405 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7406 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7407 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7410 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7411 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7413 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7416 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7417 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7419 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7421 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7422 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7425 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7426 as soon as it is encountered.
7428 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7430 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7433 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7434 recognizes a tab character.
7436 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7437 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7438 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7439 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7441 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7443 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7446 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7448 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7450 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7451 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7454 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7455 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7456 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7457 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7458 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7460 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7461 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7463 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7464 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7465 list (.included file names were always shown).
7467 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7468 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7469 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7472 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7473 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7475 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7477 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7479 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7481 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7482 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7483 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7484 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7485 failures to open the logs.
7487 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7488 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7489 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7490 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7491 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7492 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7493 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7499 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7500 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7501 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7504 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7505 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7506 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7508 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7509 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7510 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7512 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7513 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7514 causing some misleading effects.
7516 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7517 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7518 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7520 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7521 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7522 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7523 queue-runner function directly.
7529 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7532 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7533 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7534 was always written to the default place.
7536 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7537 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7538 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7540 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7542 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7544 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7545 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7546 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7548 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7549 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7552 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7553 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7554 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7556 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7557 command line option is disabled.
7559 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7560 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7562 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7564 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7566 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7567 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7569 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7571 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7572 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7573 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7574 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7575 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7576 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7578 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7579 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7582 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7583 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7585 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7586 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7588 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7589 received was valid base64.
7591 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7592 name of the variable that was being set.
7594 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7596 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7597 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7598 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7599 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7600 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7601 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7603 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7605 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7606 nor realm was specified.
7608 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7609 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7610 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7611 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7613 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7614 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7615 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7617 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7618 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7619 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7621 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7622 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7623 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7624 some systems use these upper case variants.
7626 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7627 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7628 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7629 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7631 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7633 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7634 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7636 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7637 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7640 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7642 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7643 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7644 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7645 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7647 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7650 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7651 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7652 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7654 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7655 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7657 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7658 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7659 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7660 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7662 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7663 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7664 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7666 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7668 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7669 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7670 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7671 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7674 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7675 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7676 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7678 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7680 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7681 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7683 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7684 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7686 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7687 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7688 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7689 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7690 when emails are that large.
7697 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7698 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7700 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7701 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7702 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7704 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7705 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7706 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7708 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7709 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7710 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7711 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7712 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7714 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7715 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7716 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7717 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7718 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7721 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7722 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7723 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7724 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7725 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7726 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7727 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7728 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7729 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7730 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7731 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7732 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7733 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7734 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7736 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7737 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7740 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7741 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7742 error should be diagnosed.
7744 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7745 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7746 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7747 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7748 appeared instead of "NULL".
7750 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7751 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7752 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7753 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7754 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7755 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7758 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7759 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7760 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7766 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7767 or receiver verification errors.
7769 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7772 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7773 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7774 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7775 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7777 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7778 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7779 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7780 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7781 shouldn't happen again.
7783 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7784 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7785 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7787 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7788 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7790 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7792 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7793 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7795 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7796 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7799 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7800 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7801 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7803 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7804 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7805 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7806 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7808 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7809 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7810 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7811 to define what should happen).
7813 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7814 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7815 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7817 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7819 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7821 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7822 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7824 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7825 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7826 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7827 structure in all cases.
7829 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7830 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7831 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7832 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7834 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7835 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7838 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7839 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7841 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7842 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7844 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7845 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7846 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7848 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7849 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7850 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7852 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7853 the book and for uniformity.
7855 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7857 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7858 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7859 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7860 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7861 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7862 non-existent command as the problem.
7864 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7865 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7866 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7868 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7870 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7871 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7872 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7874 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7875 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7876 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7877 timestamps using strftime().
7879 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7880 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7882 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7883 transport-time rewrites.
7885 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7886 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7887 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7888 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7890 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7891 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7893 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7894 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7895 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7896 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7899 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7900 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7901 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7902 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7903 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7904 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7905 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7907 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7908 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7909 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7910 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7911 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7913 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7914 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7915 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7916 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7917 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7918 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7919 remaining text gets split now.
7921 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7922 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7923 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7924 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7926 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7927 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7928 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7929 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7932 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7933 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7934 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7935 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7936 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7937 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7938 passed through if needed.
7940 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7941 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7942 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7943 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7944 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7945 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7947 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7948 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7949 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7950 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7951 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7953 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7954 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7955 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7956 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7957 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7959 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7960 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7963 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7964 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7965 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7966 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7967 mayhem of various kinds.
7969 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7970 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7971 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7972 the right test for positive values.
7974 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7975 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7976 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7977 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7978 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7979 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7980 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7981 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7982 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7983 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7986 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7989 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7990 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7993 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7994 the existing equality matching.
7996 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7997 dealing with inode numbers.
7999 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8000 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8001 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8003 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8004 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8005 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8006 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8009 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8010 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8011 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8012 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8013 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8014 relay addresses has also been removed.
8016 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8018 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8019 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8020 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8022 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8023 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8024 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8025 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8026 processing applies to CR:
8028 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8029 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8031 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8032 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8033 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8034 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8036 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8037 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8038 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8040 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8041 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8042 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8043 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8044 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8045 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8048 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8051 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8052 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8053 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8054 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8057 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8059 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8061 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8063 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8064 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8065 not considered personal.
8067 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8069 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8071 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8073 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8074 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8075 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8076 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8077 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8078 header lines, and spool format errors.
8080 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8081 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8082 for more flexibility.
8084 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8085 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8086 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8088 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8091 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8092 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8093 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8094 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8095 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8096 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8097 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8098 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8099 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8101 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8102 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8103 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8104 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8105 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8106 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8107 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8109 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8110 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8111 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8113 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8114 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8115 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8116 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8117 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8118 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8119 instead of killing the process with assert().
8121 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8122 than Unicode encoding.
8124 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8125 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8126 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8127 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8129 77. Added process_log_path.
8131 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8132 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8134 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8135 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8137 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8138 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8139 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8141 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8142 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8143 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8144 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8145 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8148 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8149 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8152 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8153 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8154 they will be used during message reception.
8160 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.