1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
8 JH/01 The hosts_connection_nolog main option now also controls "no MAIL in
9 SMTP connection" log lines.
11 JH/02 Option default value updates:
12 - queue_fast_ramp (main) true (was false)
13 - remote_max_parallel (main) 4 (was 2)
15 JH/03 Cache static regex pattern compilations, for use by ACLs.
17 JH/04 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
18 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
19 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
21 JH/05 Follow symlinks for placing a watch on TLS creds files. This means
22 (under Linux) we watch the dir containing the final file; previously
23 it would be the dir with the first symlink. We still do not monitor
26 JH/06 Check for bad chars in rDNS for sender_host_name. The OpenBSD (at least)
27 dn_expand() is happy to pass them through.
29 JH/07 OpenSSL Fix auto-reload of changed server OCSP proof. Previously, if
30 the file with the proof had an unchanged name, the new proof(s) were
31 loaded on top of the old ones (and nover used; the old ones were stapled).
33 JH/08 Bug 2915: Fix use-after-free for $regex<n> variables. Previously when
34 more than one message arrived in a single connection a reference from
35 the earlier message could be re-used. Often a sigsegv resulted.
36 These variables were introduced in Exim 4.87.
37 Debug help from Graeme Fowler.
39 JH/09 Fix ${filter } for conditions that modify $value. Previously the
40 modified version would be used in construction the result, and a memory
43 JH/10 GnuTLS: fix for (IOT?) clients offering no TLS extensions at all.
44 Find and fix by Jasen Betts.
46 JH/11 OpenSSL: fix for ancient clients needing TLS support for versions earlier
47 than TLSv1,2, Previously, more-recent versions of OpenSSL were permitting
48 the systemwide configuration to override the Exim config.
50 HS/01 Bug 2728: Introduce EDITME option "DMARC_API" to work around incompatible
51 API changes in libopendmarc.
53 JH/12 Bug 2930: Fix daemon startup. When started from any process apart from
54 pid 1, in the normal "background daemon" mode, having to drop process-
55 group leadership also lost track of needing to create listener sockets.
57 JH/13 Bug 2929: Fix using $recipients after ${run...}. A change made for 4.96
58 resulted in the variable appearing empty. Find and fix by Ruben Jenster.
60 JH/14 Bug 2933: Fix regex substring match variables for null matches. Since 4.96
61 a capture group which obtained no text (eg. "(abc)*" matching zero
62 occurrences) could cause a segfault if the corresponding $<n> was
65 JH/15 Fix argument parsing for ${run } expansion. Previously, when an argument
66 included a close-brace character (eg. it itself used an expansion) an
69 JH/16 Move running the smtp connect ACL to before, for TLS-on-connect ports,
70 starting TLS. Previously it was after, meaning that attackers on such
71 ports had to be screened using the host_reject_connection main config
72 option. The new sequence aligns better with the STARTTLS behaviour, and
73 permits defences against crypto-processing load attacks, even though it
74 is strictly an incompatible change.
75 Also, avoid sending any SMTP fail response for either the connect ACL
76 or host_reject_connection, for TLS-on-connect ports.
78 JH/17 Permit the ACL "encrypted" condition to be used in a HELO/EHLO ACL,
79 Previously this was not permitted, but it makes reasonable sense.
80 While there, restore a restriction on using it from a connect ACL; given
81 the change JH/16 it could only return false (and before 4.91 was not
84 JH/18 Fix a fencepost error in logging. Previously (since 4.92) when a log line
85 was exactly sized compared to the log buffer, a crash occurred with the
86 misleading message "bad memory reference; pool not found".
87 Found and traced by Jasen Betts.
89 JH/19 Bug 2911: Fix a recursion in DNS lookups. Previously, if the main option
90 dns_again_means_nonexist included an element causing a DNS lookup which
91 iteslf returned DNS_AGAIN, unbounded recursion occurred. Possible results
92 included (though probably not limited to) a process crash from stack
93 memory limit, or from excessive open files. Replace this with a paniclog
94 whine (as this is likely a configuration error), and returning
97 JH/20 Bug 2954: (OpenSSL) Fix setting of explicit EC curve/group. Previously
98 this always failed, probably leading to the usual downgrade to in-clear
101 JH/20 Fix TLSA lookups. Previously dns_again_means_nonexist would affect
102 SERVFAIL results, which breaks the downgrade resistance of DANE. Change
103 to not checking that list for these looks.
105 JH/21 Bug 2434: Add connection-elapsed "D=" element to more connection
108 JH/23 Fix crash in string expansions. Previously, if an empty variable was
109 immediately followed by an expansion operator, a null-indirection read
110 was done, killing the process.
116 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique message IDs) from
117 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
118 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
121 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
122 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
124 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
125 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
126 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
127 not be modified by local-scan code.
129 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
130 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
132 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
133 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
136 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
137 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
139 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
140 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
143 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
144 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
145 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
147 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
148 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
149 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
151 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
152 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
153 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
154 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
155 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
156 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
157 Assorted crashes happen.
159 JH/11 Fix use of $sender_host_name in daemon process. When used in certain
160 main-section options or in a connect ACL, the value from the first ever
161 connection was never replaced for subsequent connections. Found by
164 JH/12 Bug 2838: Fix for i32lp64 hard-align platforms. Found for SPARC Linux,
165 though only once PCRE2 was introduced: the memory accounting used under
166 debug offset allocations by an int, giving a hard trap in early startup.
167 Change to using a size_t. Debug and fix by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.
169 JH/13 Bug 2845: Fix handling of tls_require_ciphers for OpenSSL when a value
170 with underbars is given. The write-protection of configuration introduced
171 in 4.95 trapped when normalisation was applied to an option not needing
174 JH/14 Bug 1895: TLS: Deprecate RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
176 JH/15 Fix a resource leak in *BSD. An off-by-one error resulted in the daemon
177 failing to close the certificates directory, every hour or any time it
180 JH/16 Debugging initiated by an ACL control now continues through into routing
181 and transport processes. Previously debugging stopped any time Exim
182 re-execs, or for processing a queued message.
184 JH/17 The "expand" debug selector now gives more detail, specifically on the
185 result of expansion operators and items.
187 JH/18 Bug 2751: Fix include_directory in redirect routers. Previously a
188 bad comparison between the option value and the name of the file to
189 be included was done, and a mismatch was wrongly identified.
190 4.88 to 4.95 are affected.
192 JH/19 Support for Berkeley DB versions 1 and 2 is withdrawn.
194 JH/20 When built with NDBM for hints DB's check for nonexistence of a name
195 supplied as the db file-pair basename. Previously, if a directory
196 path was given, for example via the autoreply "once" option, the DB
197 file.pag and file.dir files would be created in that directory's
200 JH/21 Remove the "allow_insecure_tainted_data" main config option and the
201 "taint" log_selector. These were previously deprecated.
203 JH/22 Fix static address-list lookups to properly return the matched item.
204 Previously only the domain part was returned.
206 JH/23 Bug 2864: FreeBSD: fix transport hang after 4xx/5xx response. Previously
207 the call into OpenSSL to send a TLS Close was being repeated; this
208 resulted in the library waiting for the peer's Close. If that was never
209 sent we waited forever. Fix by tracking send calls.
211 JH/24 The ${run} expansion item now expands its command string elements after
212 splitting. Previously it was before; the new ordering makes handling
213 zero-length arguments simpler. The old ordering can be obtained by
214 appending a new option "preexpand", after a comma, to the "run".
216 JH/25 Taint-check exec arguments for transport-initiated external processes.
217 Previously, tainted values could be used. This affects "pipe", "lmtp" and
218 "queryprogram" transport, transport-filter, and ETRN commands.
219 The ${run} expansion is also affected: in "preexpand" mode no part of
220 the command line may be tainted, in default mode the executable name
223 JH/26 Fix CHUNKING on a continued-transport. Previously the usabliility of
224 the the facility was not passed across execs, and only the first message
225 passed over a connection could use BDAT; any further ones using DATA.
227 JH/27 Support the PIPECONNECT facility in the smtp transport when the helo_data
228 uses $sending_ip_address and an interface is specified.
229 Previously any use of the local address in the EHLO name disabled
230 PIPECONNECT, the common case being to use the rDNS of it.
232 JH/28 OpenSSL: fix transport-required OCSP stapling verification under session
233 resumption. Previously verify failed because no certificate status is
234 passed on the wire for the restarted session. Fix by using the recorded
235 ocsp status of the stored session for the new connection.
237 JH/29 TLS resumption: the key for session lookup in the client now includes
238 more info that a server could potentially use in configuring a TLS
239 session, avoiding oferring mismatching sessions to such a server.
240 Previously only the server IP was used.
242 JH/30 Fix string_copyn() for limit greater than actual string length.
243 Previously the copied amount was the limit, which could result in a
244 overlapping memcpy for newly allocated destination soon after a
245 source string shorter than the limit. Found/investigated by KM.
247 JH/31 Bug 2886: GnuTLS: Do not free the cached creds on transport connection
248 close; it may be needed for a subsequent connection. This caused a
249 SEGV on primary-MX defer. Found/investigated by Gedalya & Andreas.
251 JH/32 Fix CHUNKING for a second message on a connection when the first was
252 rejected. Previously we did not reset the chunking-offered state, and
253 erroneously rejected the BDAT command. Investigation help from
256 JH/33 Fis ${srs_encode ...} to handle an empty sender address, now returning
257 an empty address. Previously the expansion returned an error.
259 HS/01 Bug 2855: Handle a v4mapped sender address given us by a frontending
260 proxy. Previously these were misparsed, leading to paniclog entries.
266 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
267 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
268 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
270 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
271 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
272 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
273 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
275 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
276 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
277 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
278 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
279 so could be handling tainted values.
281 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
282 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
283 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
285 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
286 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
287 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
290 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
291 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
292 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
293 to align better with RFC 6125.
295 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
296 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
297 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
298 by adding a release action in that path.
300 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
301 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
302 dynamically-created buffers.
304 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
305 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
306 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
307 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
309 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
310 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
311 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
312 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
314 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
315 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
316 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
318 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
319 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
320 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
321 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
323 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
324 excluded, not matching the documentation.
326 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
327 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
329 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
330 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
331 this was a coding error.
333 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
334 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
335 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
336 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
337 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
338 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
339 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
341 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
342 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
343 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
344 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
346 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
347 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
348 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
349 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
350 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
352 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
353 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
356 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
357 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
358 domain-parking registrar.
360 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
361 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
362 after removing the newline.
364 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
365 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
366 option set, which was previously used.
368 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
371 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
372 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
373 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
374 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
376 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
377 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
378 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
379 exim.dev.20160529.3).
381 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
382 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
383 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
385 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
386 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
387 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
390 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
391 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
392 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
394 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
395 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
396 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
397 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
400 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
401 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
402 there, handle PRX and TFO.
404 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
405 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
406 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
407 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
408 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
410 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
411 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
412 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
413 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
416 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
417 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
419 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
422 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
423 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
424 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
425 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
426 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
428 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
430 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
431 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
432 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
433 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
434 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
435 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
437 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
438 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
440 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
441 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
442 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
444 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
445 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
448 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
449 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
450 of a new variable: $auth4.
452 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
453 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
454 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
455 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
456 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
458 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
459 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
460 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
461 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
463 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
464 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
465 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
467 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
468 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
469 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
470 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
473 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
474 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
475 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
478 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
479 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
480 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
481 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
483 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
484 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
486 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
487 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
488 looked as if if might be one.
490 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
491 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
492 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
493 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
494 messages can show the proxy information.
496 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
497 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
498 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
499 "queue_time_exclusive".
501 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
502 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
503 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
505 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
506 making it unusable in complex expressions.
508 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
509 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
512 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
514 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
516 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
518 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
519 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
520 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
521 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
523 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
524 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
526 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
527 better. Reported by Qualys.
529 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
530 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
533 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
535 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
538 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
540 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
541 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
542 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
543 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
545 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
546 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
548 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
549 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
550 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
551 mode until after various protocol state checks.
552 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
554 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
556 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
557 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
559 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
562 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
563 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
564 executed child processes (if any).
566 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
569 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
570 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
571 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
572 been reported on other platforms.
574 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
576 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
577 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
578 Not supported on Solaris 10.
580 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
581 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
582 since fakereject was originally introduced.
584 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
585 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
587 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
588 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
589 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
592 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
593 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
594 which only permit IP addresses.
600 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
601 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
602 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
604 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
606 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
607 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
610 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
611 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
612 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
614 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
616 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
618 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
619 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
620 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
622 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
623 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
624 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
626 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
627 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
629 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
630 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
633 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
634 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
635 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
636 should both provide the file and set the option.
637 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
639 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
640 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
642 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
643 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
644 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
645 Authentication-Results: header.
647 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
648 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
649 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
650 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
652 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
653 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
654 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
655 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
656 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
657 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
658 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
660 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
661 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
662 copies while it is still usable.
664 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
665 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
666 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
668 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
669 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
671 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
672 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
673 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
674 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
676 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
677 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
678 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
681 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
682 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
683 - the pipe transport command
684 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
685 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
687 - paths used by single-key lookups
688 Previously this was permitted.
690 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
691 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
692 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
693 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
695 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
696 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
697 support larger malloc requests.
699 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
700 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
701 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
702 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
704 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
705 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
706 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
707 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
710 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
711 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
712 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
713 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
714 data being length-specified.
716 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
717 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
718 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
719 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
721 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
722 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
723 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
724 not being properly tracked.
726 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
727 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
728 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
729 minute could be seen.
731 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
732 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
733 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
735 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
736 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
738 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
739 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
742 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
744 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
745 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
747 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
748 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
749 filesystem as sufficient validation.
751 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
752 argument is supplied.
754 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
755 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
756 access under Exim's current working directory.
758 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
759 Previously no event was raised.
761 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
762 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
763 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
766 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
767 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
768 the size of the signature hash.
770 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
771 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
773 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
774 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
775 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
776 dropped between messages.
778 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
779 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
780 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
781 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
783 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
784 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
785 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
786 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
787 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
788 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
789 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
790 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
791 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
793 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
794 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
795 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
797 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
798 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
805 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
806 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
808 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
809 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
812 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
815 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
817 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
819 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
820 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
822 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
823 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
824 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
825 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
826 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
827 suitably configured).
829 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
830 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
832 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
833 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
836 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
837 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
839 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
840 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
841 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
842 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
845 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
846 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
847 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
849 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
852 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
853 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
855 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
856 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
857 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
858 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
861 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
862 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
863 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
864 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
867 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
868 shared (NFS) environment.
870 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
871 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
874 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
875 on some platforms for bit 31.
877 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
878 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
879 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
880 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
881 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
882 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
883 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
884 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
886 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
888 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
889 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
891 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
892 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
895 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
896 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
899 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
900 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
901 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
904 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
905 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
906 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
908 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
909 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
910 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
911 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
912 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
914 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
917 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
918 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
919 be requested on all coneections.
921 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
922 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
924 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
926 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
927 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
928 one for these; the option was ignored.
930 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
931 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
932 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
933 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
935 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
936 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
937 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
940 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
941 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
942 error ignored was made.
944 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
946 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
947 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
948 values, to catch one form of exploit.
950 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
951 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
952 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
954 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
955 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
958 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
959 them in our smtp response.
961 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
962 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
963 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
964 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
965 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
967 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
968 link count into consideration.
970 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
971 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
973 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
974 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
975 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
978 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
980 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
982 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
984 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
985 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
986 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
987 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
989 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
991 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
992 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
995 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
996 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
997 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
999 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
1000 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
1001 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
1003 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
1004 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
1005 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
1006 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
1007 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
1008 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
1009 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
1010 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
1012 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
1013 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
1014 resulted in an indefinite loop.
1016 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
1017 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
1018 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
1020 JH/48 Bug 2784: fix shutdown=no in the ${readsocket) expansion item. Previously
1021 an incorrect mode was used for reading the result, resulting in it being
1028 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
1029 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
1031 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
1032 non-signal-safe functions being used.
1034 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
1035 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
1036 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
1038 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
1039 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
1040 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
1042 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
1043 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
1044 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
1045 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
1046 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
1049 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
1050 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
1052 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
1053 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
1054 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
1055 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
1056 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
1057 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
1058 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
1060 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
1061 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
1063 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
1066 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
1067 Previously this would segfault.
1069 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
1072 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
1073 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
1074 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
1075 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
1076 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
1077 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
1079 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
1081 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
1082 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
1083 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
1084 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
1086 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
1088 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
1089 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
1090 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
1091 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
1093 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
1095 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
1097 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
1098 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
1099 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
1101 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
1102 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
1103 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
1105 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
1107 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
1108 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
1109 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
1110 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
1112 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
1113 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
1114 promised '?' replacement.
1116 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
1118 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
1119 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
1120 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
1121 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
1122 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
1124 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
1125 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
1126 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
1128 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
1129 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
1130 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
1132 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
1133 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
1134 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
1136 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
1137 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
1138 hope that is portable enough.
1140 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
1141 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
1142 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
1143 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
1145 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
1146 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
1147 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
1149 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
1150 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
1151 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
1152 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
1154 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
1155 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
1157 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
1158 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
1159 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
1160 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
1162 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
1163 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
1164 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
1166 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
1167 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
1168 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
1169 the previous G, M, k.
1171 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
1172 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
1175 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
1176 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
1177 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
1178 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
1180 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
1181 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
1183 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
1184 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
1185 off past the nul-terimation.
1187 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
1188 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
1189 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
1190 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
1191 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
1193 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
1195 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
1196 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
1197 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
1200 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
1201 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
1203 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
1204 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
1205 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
1207 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
1208 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
1209 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
1211 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
1212 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1218 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1219 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1220 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1221 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1222 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1223 be defined in redis_servers.
1225 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1226 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1228 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1229 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1230 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1231 extant use locations.
1233 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1234 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1236 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1237 Previously only the last row was returned.
1239 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1240 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1241 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1242 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1245 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1246 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1247 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1248 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1249 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1250 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1251 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1252 Main pool for expansions.
1253 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1254 active in the testsuite.
1255 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1257 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1258 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1259 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1260 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1263 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1264 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1267 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1268 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1269 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1271 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1272 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1273 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1275 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1276 rows affected is given instead).
1278 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1279 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1281 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1282 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1283 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1284 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1285 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1287 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1288 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1289 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1291 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1292 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1293 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1294 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1297 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1298 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1299 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1302 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1304 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1305 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1307 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1308 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1309 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1311 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1312 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1313 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1316 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1317 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1319 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1320 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1321 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1323 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1324 for the build is renamed.
1326 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1327 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1328 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1330 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1331 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1332 result replacing the original.
1334 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1335 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1336 and the resources needed to be freed.
1338 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1340 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1343 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1344 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1345 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1346 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1348 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1349 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1351 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1352 newer versions of the scanner.
1354 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1355 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1356 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1357 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1358 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1359 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1360 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1362 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1363 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1364 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1365 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1366 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1367 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1368 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1369 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1370 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1371 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1373 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1374 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1376 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1378 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1379 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1381 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1382 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1384 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1385 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1386 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1388 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1389 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1390 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1391 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1393 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1394 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1397 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1398 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1400 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1401 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1402 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1403 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1404 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1406 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1407 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1410 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1411 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1413 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1416 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1417 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1418 "bare" representation.
1420 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1421 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1422 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1423 corrupted the output.
1429 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1430 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1431 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1432 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1434 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1435 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1437 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1438 This permits better logging.
1440 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1441 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1442 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1443 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1444 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1445 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1447 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1448 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1451 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1452 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1453 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1455 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1456 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1458 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1459 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1460 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1461 client, there is no benefit for these.
1462 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1463 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1464 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1467 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1468 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1470 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1471 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1472 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1474 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1475 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1477 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1478 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1479 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1480 signature and again for transmission.
1482 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1483 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1484 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1486 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1487 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1488 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1489 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1490 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1491 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1492 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1494 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1495 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1496 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1497 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1499 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1500 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1501 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1502 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1503 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1504 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1507 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1508 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1509 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1510 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1513 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1514 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1515 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1516 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1519 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1520 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1523 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1524 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1525 banner-time rejection.
1527 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1530 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1531 is the name of a transport.
1534 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1536 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1537 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1539 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1540 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1541 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1544 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1545 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1546 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1547 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1549 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1550 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1551 initial verify call returned a defer.
1553 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1554 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1556 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1557 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1559 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1560 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1562 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1563 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1565 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1566 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1569 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1570 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1572 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1573 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1574 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1576 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1577 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1578 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1579 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1581 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1582 and confused the parent.
1584 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1585 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1587 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1590 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1591 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1592 out-of-order delivery.
1594 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1595 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1596 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1599 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1600 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1603 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1604 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1605 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1607 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1608 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1609 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1610 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1611 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1612 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1614 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1615 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1616 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1618 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1619 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1620 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1622 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1623 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1624 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1625 though a different problem.
1631 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1632 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1634 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1636 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1637 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1639 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1640 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1642 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1643 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1644 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1645 before acknowledging the chunk.
1647 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1648 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1649 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1651 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1652 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1653 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1656 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1657 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1658 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1660 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1661 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1663 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1664 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1665 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1666 body hash calculated value.
1668 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1669 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1670 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1672 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1674 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1675 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1677 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1678 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1679 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1681 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1682 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1683 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1684 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1685 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1686 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1688 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1689 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1690 past that check, despite the cost.
1692 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1693 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1694 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1696 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1697 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1698 TLS library to consume.
1700 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1702 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1704 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1705 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1706 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1707 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1708 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1709 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1710 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1712 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1714 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1716 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1717 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1718 should be warning-free.
1720 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1722 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1723 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1725 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1726 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1727 general solution here.
1729 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1730 already-broken messages in the queue.
1732 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1734 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1740 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1741 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1743 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1744 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1745 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1747 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1748 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1749 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1750 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1751 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1752 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1753 if one fails this test.
1754 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1755 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1757 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1758 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1760 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1761 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1763 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1764 in rewrites and routers.
1766 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1767 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1769 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1770 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1772 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1774 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1777 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1778 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1779 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1780 connection after a verify cache hit.
1781 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1783 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1784 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1786 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1787 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1788 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1789 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1790 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1792 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1793 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1795 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1796 Previously they were not counted.
1798 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1799 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1800 that needed the lookup.
1802 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1803 distinguished as "(=".
1805 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1806 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1808 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1810 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1811 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1813 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1814 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1816 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1817 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1820 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1821 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1822 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1823 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1825 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1827 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1828 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1829 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1831 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1832 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1833 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1836 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1837 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1838 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1841 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1842 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1843 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1845 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1846 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1849 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1851 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1852 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1854 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1855 are not in the system include path.
1857 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1858 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1859 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1860 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1862 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1863 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1864 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1866 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1868 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1869 an incoming connection.
1871 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1874 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1875 fallback to "prime256v1".
1877 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1878 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1884 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1885 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1886 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1887 client dropping the TLS connection.
1889 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1890 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1892 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1893 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1894 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1895 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1898 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1899 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1900 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1901 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1902 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1903 check on the next write.
1905 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1906 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1907 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1908 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1909 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1911 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1912 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1914 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1915 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1916 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1918 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1919 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1920 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1921 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1923 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1924 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1926 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1927 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1929 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1930 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1931 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1934 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1936 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1938 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1940 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1941 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1943 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1944 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1946 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1948 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1949 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1951 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1953 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1954 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1956 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1958 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1959 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1960 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1961 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1962 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1963 they will retry in-clear.
1964 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1965 at installation time.
1967 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1968 with the $config_file variable.
1970 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1971 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1972 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1973 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1974 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1976 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1977 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1978 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1979 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1980 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1982 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1984 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1985 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1986 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1987 list order is no longer honoured.
1989 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1990 for DKIM processing.
1992 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1993 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1995 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1996 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1997 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1998 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
2000 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
2001 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
2003 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
2004 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
2006 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
2007 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
2009 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
2011 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
2012 cached by the daemon.
2014 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2015 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
2017 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
2018 keys are given for lookup.
2020 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
2021 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
2022 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
2023 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
2025 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
2026 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
2027 server-side so match that on older versions.
2029 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
2030 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
2031 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
2033 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
2034 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
2036 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
2037 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
2038 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
2039 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
2040 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
2041 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
2042 initial truncated version.
2044 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
2046 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
2048 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
2049 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
2051 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
2053 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
2055 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
2056 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
2059 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
2060 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
2063 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
2064 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
2066 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
2067 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
2070 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
2071 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
2072 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
2074 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
2075 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
2076 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
2077 extraction. Accept either.
2083 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
2086 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
2088 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
2091 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
2092 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
2093 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
2094 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
2096 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
2097 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
2098 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
2100 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
2101 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
2102 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
2105 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
2108 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
2109 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
2110 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
2111 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
2112 have a dsn_lasthop option.
2114 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
2115 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
2116 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
2118 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
2120 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
2121 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
2123 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
2124 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
2126 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
2129 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
2130 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
2132 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
2133 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
2134 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
2136 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2137 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
2138 specify a port-range.
2140 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
2141 timeout value per server.
2143 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
2144 now have the list separator specified.
2146 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
2149 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
2152 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
2154 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
2155 rather than the verbs used.
2157 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
2158 from 255 to 1024 chars.
2160 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
2162 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
2163 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
2165 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
2166 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
2168 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
2169 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
2171 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
2173 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
2175 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
2176 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
2177 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
2178 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
2180 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
2182 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
2183 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
2185 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
2186 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
2188 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
2190 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
2192 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
2194 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
2195 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
2197 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
2198 added for tls authenticator.
2200 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
2206 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
2207 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
2208 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
2209 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
2210 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
2211 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
2212 the script parsing/test process like normal.
2214 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2215 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2216 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2217 function when detected.
2219 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2220 cause callback expansion.
2222 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2223 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2224 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2225 instead of bool when processing it.
2227 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2228 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2230 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2232 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2234 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2236 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2237 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2239 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2240 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2241 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2242 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2243 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2244 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2246 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2247 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2250 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2251 version 3.3.6 or later.
2253 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2254 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2255 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2256 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2257 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2258 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2261 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2262 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2264 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2265 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2266 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2269 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2270 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2271 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2273 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2274 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2276 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2277 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2280 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2282 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2283 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2285 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2286 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2289 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2291 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2294 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2295 output list separator was used.
2300 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2301 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2304 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2305 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2307 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2309 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2310 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2316 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2318 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2319 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2320 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2321 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2322 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2323 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2325 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2326 utilities have not been installed.
2328 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2329 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2331 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2332 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2334 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2335 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2336 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2337 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2339 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2341 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2342 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2344 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2347 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2349 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2350 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2351 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2353 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2354 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2355 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2356 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2357 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2358 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2360 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2362 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2363 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2365 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2368 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2370 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2372 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2373 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2375 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2376 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2378 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2380 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2382 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2383 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2385 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2386 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2387 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2389 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2390 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2391 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2394 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2396 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2397 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2400 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2401 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2404 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2405 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2407 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2408 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2410 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2412 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2413 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2414 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2416 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2417 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2419 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2420 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2423 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2424 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2425 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2427 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2429 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2430 Christian Aistleitner.
2432 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2434 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2435 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2437 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2438 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2440 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2441 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2443 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2444 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2446 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2447 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2449 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2450 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2451 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2453 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2455 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2456 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2459 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2461 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2462 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2469 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2471 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2472 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2474 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2477 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2478 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2481 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2483 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2484 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2485 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2486 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2487 using channel bindings instead).
2489 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2490 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2491 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2492 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2493 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2496 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2498 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2500 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2501 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2503 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2504 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2505 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2507 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2509 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2511 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2512 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2514 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2516 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2518 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2520 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2521 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2523 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2525 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2526 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2529 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2530 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2532 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2533 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2536 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2538 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2540 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2541 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2543 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2546 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2547 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2549 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2550 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2552 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2554 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2556 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2559 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2562 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2564 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2565 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2566 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2567 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2569 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2571 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2572 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2573 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2574 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2577 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2578 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2579 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2581 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2582 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2583 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2584 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2586 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2587 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2588 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2589 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2590 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2591 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2592 delivery, as in LMTP.
2594 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2595 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2597 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2599 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2603 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2604 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2605 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2606 username as equal to the username.
2608 This change corrects that bug.
2610 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2611 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2612 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2614 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2616 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2617 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2618 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2619 NULL dereference and crash.
2621 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2623 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2624 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2625 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2627 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2629 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2630 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2631 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2632 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2633 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2634 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2635 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2636 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2637 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2638 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2639 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2641 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2642 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2644 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2645 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2648 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2649 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2650 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2651 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2652 an empty string is now equivalent.
2654 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2655 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2656 not performing validation itself.
2658 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2659 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2661 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2664 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2666 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2667 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2668 other false fix of the same issue.
2669 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2672 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2673 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2675 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2676 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2677 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2679 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2680 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2681 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2683 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2685 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2687 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2688 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2690 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2693 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2694 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2695 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2696 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2697 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2699 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2700 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2702 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2703 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2706 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2707 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2708 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2709 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2711 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2713 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2714 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2715 from multiple comments on this bug.
2717 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2719 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2720 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2723 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2724 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2726 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2727 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2733 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2735 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2741 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2742 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2743 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2745 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2747 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2750 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2752 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2754 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2756 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2757 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2759 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2760 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2762 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2763 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2765 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2766 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2767 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2769 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2771 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2772 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2774 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2776 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2778 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2779 non-compliant senders.
2780 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2782 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2783 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2784 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2786 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2787 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2788 in spool file corruption.
2790 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2791 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2792 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2795 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2796 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2797 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2799 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2800 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2802 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2804 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2806 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2808 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2809 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2810 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2812 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2813 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2814 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2815 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2817 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2818 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2820 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2821 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2822 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2823 resolver implementation change.
2825 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2826 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2828 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2830 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2832 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2833 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2835 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2836 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2838 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2839 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2841 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2842 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2843 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2844 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2845 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2847 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2849 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2850 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2851 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2853 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2855 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2856 read-only, out of scope).
2857 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2859 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2860 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2861 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2862 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2864 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2866 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2867 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2868 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2869 real issues in debug logging.
2871 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2872 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2874 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2875 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2876 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2878 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2879 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2880 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2883 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2884 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2886 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2887 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2888 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2889 needs to override this, it can.
2891 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2892 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2893 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2895 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2896 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2897 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2898 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2900 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2906 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2907 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2909 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2911 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2914 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2915 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2917 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2918 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2919 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2921 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2922 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2923 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2924 not safe for signals.
2926 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2927 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2928 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2929 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2932 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2934 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2935 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2936 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2937 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2938 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2940 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2941 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2942 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2943 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2944 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2945 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2947 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2948 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2949 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2950 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2952 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2953 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2954 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2955 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2957 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2958 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2959 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2960 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2961 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2962 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2963 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2964 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2965 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2967 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2968 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2969 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2970 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2972 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2973 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2974 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2975 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2976 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2977 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2978 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2979 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2980 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2981 details in the main documentation.
2983 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2985 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2987 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2988 repository when doing development or release builds.
2990 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2991 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2993 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2994 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2997 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2999 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
3000 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
3002 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
3003 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3005 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
3006 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3008 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
3009 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
3011 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
3012 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3014 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
3016 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
3019 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
3020 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
3021 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
3023 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
3025 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
3027 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
3028 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
3034 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
3036 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
3037 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
3039 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
3041 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
3043 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
3046 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
3047 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
3049 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
3050 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
3052 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
3053 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
3055 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
3058 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
3059 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
3061 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
3062 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
3063 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
3064 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
3066 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
3067 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
3073 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
3076 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
3077 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
3078 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
3080 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
3081 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
3083 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
3084 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
3085 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
3087 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
3088 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
3090 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
3091 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
3093 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
3094 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
3096 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
3097 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
3099 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
3100 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
3102 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
3105 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
3106 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
3108 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
3109 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
3111 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
3112 SQL string expansion failure details.
3113 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
3115 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
3116 Patch from Simon Arlott.
3118 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
3119 extern declarations in function scope.
3120 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
3122 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
3123 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
3124 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
3127 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
3128 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3130 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
3131 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3133 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
3134 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3136 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
3137 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
3139 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
3140 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
3143 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
3145 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
3147 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
3148 Patch by Simon Arlott
3150 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
3151 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
3157 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
3158 consequences so log it to the panic log.
3160 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
3161 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
3163 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
3165 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
3166 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
3167 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
3169 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
3170 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
3171 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
3173 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
3174 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
3175 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
3176 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
3178 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
3179 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
3180 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
3181 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
3183 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
3184 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
3185 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
3188 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
3191 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
3192 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
3193 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
3194 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
3195 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
3201 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
3202 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
3203 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
3205 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
3206 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
3208 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
3210 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
3212 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
3214 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3216 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3218 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3219 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3220 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3221 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3223 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3224 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3225 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3226 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3227 more caution in buffer sizes.
3229 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3231 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3233 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3235 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3237 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3239 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3241 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3243 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3244 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3245 ignore trailing whitespace.
3247 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3249 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3252 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3253 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3255 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3256 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3257 Notification from John Horne.
3259 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3262 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3263 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3266 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3269 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3270 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3271 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3273 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3274 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3275 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3278 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3279 option (effectively making it always true).
3281 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3282 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3284 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3285 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3287 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3288 run-time user, instead of root.
3290 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3291 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3293 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3294 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3297 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3298 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3299 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3301 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3303 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3309 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3310 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3313 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3314 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3317 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3318 Patch from Alain Williams
3320 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3322 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3323 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3325 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3326 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3328 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3330 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3332 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3333 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3335 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3337 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3339 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3340 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3341 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3343 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3344 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3346 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3347 Patch by Simon Arlott
3349 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3350 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3356 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3358 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3360 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3362 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3364 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3370 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3371 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3373 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3374 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3377 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3378 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3379 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3381 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3382 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3384 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3385 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3386 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3387 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3389 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3390 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3391 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3393 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3395 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3397 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3398 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3400 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3402 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3403 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3404 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3405 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3407 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3408 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3410 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3412 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3414 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3415 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3417 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3418 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3420 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3421 that they are available at delivery time.
3423 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3425 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3426 incoming_port log selectors.
3428 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3429 setting expands to an empty string.
3431 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3432 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3434 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3435 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3437 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3438 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3440 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3441 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3443 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3444 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3446 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3447 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3449 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3451 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3452 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3454 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3455 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3457 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3459 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3460 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3462 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3464 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3466 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3469 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3470 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3472 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3473 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3475 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3476 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3478 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3479 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3481 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3482 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3484 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3485 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3487 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3488 plus update to original patch.
3490 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3492 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3493 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3495 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3497 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3499 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3501 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3503 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3504 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3506 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3507 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3509 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3510 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3512 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3513 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3515 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3517 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3519 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3521 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3527 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3528 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3529 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3531 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3532 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3533 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3534 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3535 build errors in sieve.c.
3537 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3538 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3539 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3541 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3543 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3545 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3547 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3553 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3555 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3556 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3557 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3558 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3559 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3560 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3561 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3562 for iplsearch lookups.
3564 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3565 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3566 previously such lookups could never work.
3568 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3569 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3570 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3572 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3575 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3576 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3577 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3578 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3579 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3580 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3582 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3583 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3585 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3586 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3587 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3588 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3589 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3590 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3592 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3595 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3597 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3598 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3601 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3602 by clients under certain conditions.
3604 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3605 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3607 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3609 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3610 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3612 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3614 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3616 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3618 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3619 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3621 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3623 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3624 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3626 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3628 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3630 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3631 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3632 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3633 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3635 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3636 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3637 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3639 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3640 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3642 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3644 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3646 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3648 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3649 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3650 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3656 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3657 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3660 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3661 issue a MAIL command.
3663 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3665 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3667 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3668 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3669 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3670 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3671 item. This has been fixed.
3673 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3674 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3676 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3677 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3679 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3680 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3681 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3683 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3685 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3686 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3687 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3688 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3689 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3691 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3692 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3693 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3695 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3696 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3697 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3698 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3700 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3702 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3704 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3705 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3706 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3707 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3708 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3710 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3712 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3713 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3714 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3717 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3719 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3721 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3723 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3725 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3727 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3728 no_callout_flush is set.
3730 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3731 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3732 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3735 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3737 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3738 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3739 other ACL rejections are.
3741 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3742 with slight modification.
3744 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3745 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3747 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3748 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3751 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3752 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3754 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3756 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3757 expansion side effects.
3759 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3760 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3761 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3764 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3765 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3766 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3768 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3769 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3770 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3771 were accidentally chopped off.
3773 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3774 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3775 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3776 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3777 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3778 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3779 pipelining has not been advertised.
3781 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3783 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3784 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3785 This has been fixed.
3787 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3788 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3789 reported on Solaris.
3791 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3792 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3793 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3794 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3795 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3796 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3797 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3799 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3802 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3804 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3806 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3807 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3808 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3809 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3810 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3811 criteria to be more general.
3813 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3814 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3815 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3816 host_all_ignored option.
3818 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3819 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3820 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3821 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3822 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3823 is what is supposed to happen).
3825 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3826 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3827 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3828 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3829 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3832 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3833 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3834 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3835 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3836 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3837 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3840 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3842 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3843 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3845 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3846 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3848 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3850 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3852 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3853 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3854 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3855 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3856 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3857 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3858 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3859 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3860 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3861 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3862 least in a lot of common cases.
3864 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3865 advertised in response to EHLO.
3871 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3872 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3874 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3875 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3877 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3878 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3879 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3881 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3882 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3883 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3884 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3885 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3891 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3892 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3895 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3896 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3897 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3899 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3900 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3901 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3902 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3903 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3904 rather than extend the field.
3910 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3911 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3912 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3913 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3916 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3917 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3918 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3920 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3921 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3922 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3924 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3925 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3926 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3929 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3930 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3931 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3932 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3933 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3934 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3935 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3936 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3937 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3938 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3939 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3941 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3944 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3945 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3946 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3947 ignores EPIPE as well.
3949 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3950 (quoted-printable decoding).
3952 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3953 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3955 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3957 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3959 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3961 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3962 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3964 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3967 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3968 miscellaneous code fixes
3970 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3973 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3974 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3975 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3976 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3977 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3978 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3979 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3980 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3982 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3983 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3984 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3985 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3987 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3988 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3989 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3990 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3991 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3992 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3993 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3994 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3995 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3997 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
4000 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
4001 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
4002 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
4003 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
4004 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
4005 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
4006 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
4007 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
4009 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
4010 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
4013 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
4014 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
4015 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
4016 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
4017 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
4018 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
4019 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
4020 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
4021 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
4022 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
4023 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
4024 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
4025 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
4027 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
4028 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
4029 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
4030 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
4031 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
4032 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
4033 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
4035 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
4036 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
4037 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
4038 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
4039 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
4040 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
4041 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
4042 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
4043 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
4044 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
4046 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
4047 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
4048 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
4049 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
4050 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
4052 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
4053 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
4054 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
4055 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
4056 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
4057 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
4058 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
4060 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
4061 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
4062 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
4063 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
4064 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
4065 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
4068 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
4069 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
4070 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
4073 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
4074 if any retry times were supplied.
4076 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
4077 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
4078 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
4080 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
4082 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
4084 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
4085 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
4086 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
4087 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
4088 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
4089 before) are ignored.
4091 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
4092 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
4094 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
4095 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
4096 committing the later change.]
4098 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
4099 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
4100 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
4101 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
4102 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
4103 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
4104 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
4105 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
4106 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
4108 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
4109 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
4110 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
4111 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
4112 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
4113 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
4114 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
4115 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
4116 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
4118 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
4119 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
4120 hammering the server.
4122 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
4123 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
4125 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
4127 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
4128 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
4129 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
4131 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
4132 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
4133 one case where this was not true.
4135 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
4136 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
4137 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
4138 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
4141 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
4142 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
4143 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
4144 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4145 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
4146 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
4147 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
4148 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
4149 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
4152 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
4153 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
4154 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
4155 same for both kinds of LMTP.
4157 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
4158 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
4160 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
4161 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
4162 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
4164 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
4166 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
4168 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
4170 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
4171 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
4172 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
4173 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
4175 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
4176 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
4178 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
4179 be meaningful with "accept".
4181 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
4182 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
4184 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
4185 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
4186 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4188 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
4189 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
4190 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
4191 there is data to show.
4192 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
4194 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
4195 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
4196 as well as the number of messages.
4198 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
4199 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
4200 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
4202 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
4203 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
4204 have a flag are now skipped.
4206 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
4207 Added the -emptyok flag.
4209 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
4210 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
4212 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
4213 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4214 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4216 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4219 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4220 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4222 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4224 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4225 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4227 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4229 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4230 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4231 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4232 contravention of the specifications.
4234 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4235 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4236 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4238 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4239 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4240 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4242 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4244 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4245 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4246 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4247 some point in the past.
4249 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4250 transport during callout processing was broken.
4252 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4253 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4255 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4256 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4258 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4259 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4261 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4267 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4268 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4270 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4271 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4272 there is data to show.
4273 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4275 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4276 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4278 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4279 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4281 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4282 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4284 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4285 submissions from trusted users.
4287 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4288 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4290 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4291 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4292 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4293 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4294 there is now a framework to start from.
4296 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4297 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4298 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4300 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4302 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4304 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4306 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4307 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4308 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4310 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4313 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4314 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4315 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4317 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4318 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4319 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4322 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4323 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4324 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4325 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4326 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4328 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4329 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4331 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4333 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4334 operations in malware.c.
4336 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4339 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4340 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4341 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4344 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4345 statements to "add_header".
4347 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4348 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4350 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4351 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4354 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4358 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4359 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4360 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4363 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4364 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4366 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4367 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4369 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4370 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4371 any possible encoding problems.
4373 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4374 but not after initializing Perl.
4376 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4377 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4378 apparently, which is not desirable.
4380 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4383 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4386 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4388 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4389 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4390 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4391 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4393 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4394 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4395 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4397 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4398 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4399 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4402 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4403 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4404 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4405 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4406 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4412 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4413 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4415 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4418 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4419 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4420 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4421 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4422 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4423 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4424 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4425 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4428 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4430 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4431 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4432 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4434 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4435 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4436 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4439 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4440 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4442 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4443 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4444 option (which defaults to 0600).
4446 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4448 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4449 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4450 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4451 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4452 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4453 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4454 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4456 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4462 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4463 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4464 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4465 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4466 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4467 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4470 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4471 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4473 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4475 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4476 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4477 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4478 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4479 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4482 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4483 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4485 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4486 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4487 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4488 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4489 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4491 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4492 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4493 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4494 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4496 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4497 be the same on different OS.
4499 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4502 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4503 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4505 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4508 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4509 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4510 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4511 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4512 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4513 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4516 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4517 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4518 when Exim was called.
4520 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4521 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4523 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4524 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4525 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4526 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4528 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4529 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4530 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4531 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4534 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4535 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4536 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4538 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4539 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4540 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4542 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4545 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4546 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4547 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4548 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4549 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4550 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4551 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4552 values from the SRV records were lost.
4554 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4555 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4556 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4558 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4559 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4560 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4562 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4563 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4564 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4565 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4566 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4567 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4568 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4569 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4570 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4571 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4573 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4574 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4575 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4577 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4578 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4580 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4581 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4582 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4583 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4586 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4587 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4588 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4590 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4591 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4592 PH/23 above applies.
4594 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4595 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4596 (for which there is an explicit test).
4598 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4600 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4601 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4602 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4603 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4604 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4606 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4607 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4608 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4609 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4611 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4612 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4613 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4615 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4617 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4619 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4620 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4621 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4623 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4624 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4625 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4626 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4627 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4629 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4630 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4631 the message gets confusing).
4633 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4634 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4635 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4636 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4638 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4639 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4640 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4641 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4644 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4645 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4646 the different processes.
4648 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4650 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4652 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4653 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4655 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4656 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4658 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4659 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4660 messages matching specified criteria.
4662 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4664 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4665 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4667 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4668 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4669 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4670 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4671 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4672 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4673 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4674 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4675 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4676 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4678 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4679 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4680 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4682 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4684 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4685 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4686 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4687 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4688 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4689 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4690 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4693 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4694 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4696 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4698 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4700 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4702 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4703 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4704 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4705 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4706 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4707 size of the count of files.
4709 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4711 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4714 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4715 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4716 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4717 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4719 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4720 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4721 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4723 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4724 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4725 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4726 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4727 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4729 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4730 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4732 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4733 will now be deprecated.
4735 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4737 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4738 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4739 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4741 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4742 with very large, slow to parse queues
4744 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4746 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4748 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4749 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4750 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4753 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4754 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4755 Sieve code now uses this.
4757 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4758 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4760 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4761 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4763 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4765 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4766 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4767 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4768 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4769 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4771 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4772 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4773 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4774 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4776 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4778 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4780 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4781 is preferred over IPv4.
4783 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4784 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4785 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4786 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4787 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4788 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4789 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4791 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4792 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4793 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4795 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4797 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4798 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4799 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4800 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4801 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4802 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4803 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4804 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4805 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4806 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4807 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4809 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4810 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4811 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4817 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4819 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4820 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4822 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4823 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4824 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4826 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4828 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4831 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4834 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4835 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4836 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4839 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4840 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4842 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4843 inside the third argument.
4845 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4846 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4849 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4850 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4852 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4853 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4855 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4857 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4858 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4861 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4863 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4864 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4865 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4866 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4867 identical. For example:
4869 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4871 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4872 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4873 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4875 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4876 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4877 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4878 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4880 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4881 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4882 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4885 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4887 o fixes some comments
4888 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4889 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4890 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4891 and documents the missing references header update
4895 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4896 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4899 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4900 Electronic Mail") by including:
4902 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4904 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4905 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4906 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4907 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4908 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4910 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4912 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4914 The auto-replied keyword:
4916 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4917 message by an automatic process,
4919 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4921 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4922 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4924 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4925 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4928 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4929 to the default Received: header definition.
4931 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4933 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4934 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4935 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4937 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4938 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4939 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4941 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4942 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4943 and treats the condition as false.
4945 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4947 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4948 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4949 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4950 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4951 not changing the active code.
4953 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4954 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4956 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4957 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4959 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4962 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4963 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4964 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4965 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4966 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4967 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4968 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4969 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4970 the text comparison.
4972 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4973 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4974 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4975 The same fix has been applied.
4981 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4982 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4985 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4986 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4988 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4990 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4991 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4992 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4993 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4994 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4996 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4997 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4998 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4999 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
5002 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
5010 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
5011 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
5013 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
5015 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
5017 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
5018 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
5019 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
5021 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
5022 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
5023 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
5025 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
5026 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
5029 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
5030 ${stat: expansion item.
5032 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
5033 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
5035 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
5036 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
5039 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5041 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
5044 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
5045 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
5047 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
5049 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
5050 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
5051 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
5052 the end of the subprocess.
5054 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
5055 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
5056 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
5057 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
5058 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
5060 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
5062 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
5064 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
5065 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
5067 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
5069 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
5071 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
5072 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
5075 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
5077 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
5078 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
5079 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
5081 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
5082 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
5084 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
5085 host errors such as "Connection refused".
5087 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
5088 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
5090 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
5091 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
5093 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
5094 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
5095 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
5096 contributed by a Radius user.
5098 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
5099 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
5101 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
5102 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
5104 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
5107 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
5108 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
5111 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
5112 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
5113 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
5114 header lines when this was not necessary.
5116 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
5118 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
5119 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
5120 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
5123 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
5126 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
5127 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
5128 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
5129 return code was incorrect.
5131 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
5133 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
5135 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
5137 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
5139 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
5140 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
5141 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
5142 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
5143 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
5146 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
5148 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
5149 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
5150 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
5151 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
5152 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
5153 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
5154 which is clearly wrong.
5156 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
5158 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
5159 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
5160 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
5163 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
5164 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
5166 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
5168 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
5169 the "build-* directories that it finds.
5171 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
5172 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
5174 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
5175 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
5177 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
5178 recipients, not senders.
5180 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
5181 the ratelimit ACL was added.
5183 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
5185 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
5187 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
5188 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
5189 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
5190 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
5192 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
5194 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
5195 clock is set back in time.
5197 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
5198 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
5200 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
5201 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
5203 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
5204 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
5207 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
5208 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
5211 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
5214 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5216 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5217 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5218 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5220 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5221 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5222 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5223 helo verification defer as a failure.
5225 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5226 actual error message.
5232 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5234 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5235 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5236 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5237 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5239 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5241 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5242 can still be requested.
5244 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5245 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5246 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5247 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5249 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5250 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5251 circumstances, but probably never did.
5253 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5254 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5255 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5258 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5260 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5261 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5263 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5265 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5267 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5268 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5269 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5270 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5271 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5272 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5274 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5275 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5276 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5277 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5278 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5279 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5281 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5282 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5284 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5285 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5287 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5288 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5290 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5292 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5294 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5296 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5298 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5300 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5302 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5304 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5305 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5306 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5308 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5309 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5310 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5311 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5313 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5314 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5315 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5317 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5318 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5319 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5320 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5322 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5323 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5326 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5327 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5328 should work with maildirs and everything.
5330 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5331 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5333 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5336 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5337 function for BDB 4.3.
5339 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5341 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5342 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5345 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5346 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5347 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5348 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5349 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5350 formatting function string_vformat().
5352 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5353 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5354 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5355 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5356 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5357 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5358 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5359 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5361 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5362 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5365 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5366 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5368 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5369 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5370 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5371 test. It is now used for both.
5373 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5374 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5375 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5376 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5377 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5378 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5380 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5381 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5382 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5385 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5386 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5387 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5389 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5390 experimental DomainKeys support:
5392 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5393 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5394 the control was given.
5396 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5398 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5400 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5402 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5403 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5404 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5407 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5408 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5409 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5410 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5411 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5412 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5415 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5416 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5417 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5418 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5419 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5420 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5422 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5423 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5424 do -d+all out of habit.
5426 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5427 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5430 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5431 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5432 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5433 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5434 record types that Exim uses.
5436 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5437 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5438 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5439 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5440 non-existent file that was broken.
5442 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5443 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5445 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5446 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5447 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5449 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5451 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5452 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5453 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5454 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5455 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5458 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5459 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5460 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5461 at a slight CPU cost.
5463 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5464 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5466 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5469 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5471 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5472 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5478 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5479 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5481 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5483 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5485 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5486 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5488 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5489 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5490 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5491 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5492 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5493 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5496 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5497 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5498 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5499 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5502 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5503 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5504 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5505 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5506 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5507 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5508 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5511 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5512 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5514 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5515 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5516 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5517 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5518 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5519 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5521 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5522 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5523 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5524 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5526 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5529 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5530 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5532 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5533 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5534 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5535 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5538 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5540 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5541 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5543 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5544 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5545 to what was transported.)
5547 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5549 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5550 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5551 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5552 spamd_address settings.
5554 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5555 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5556 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5557 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5558 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5560 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5562 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5563 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5564 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5565 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5566 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5568 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5569 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5571 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5572 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5573 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5574 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5575 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5576 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5577 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5580 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5581 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5582 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5583 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5584 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5585 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5586 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5589 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5591 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5592 driver and ACL definitions.
5594 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5595 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5597 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5598 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5599 understands it better than I do:
5601 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5602 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5604 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5605 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5606 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5607 => three warnings about OTP not working
5608 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5610 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5611 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5612 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5613 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5615 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5616 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5618 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5619 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5620 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5622 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5623 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5626 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5627 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5630 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5631 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5632 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5634 warn !verify = sender
5635 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5637 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5638 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5640 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5642 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5643 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5645 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5646 nomenclature these days.)
5648 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5649 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5651 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5652 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5653 . First host does not offer TLS;
5654 . First host accepts first address;
5655 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5656 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5657 . Second host accepts second address.
5658 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5659 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5662 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5663 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5664 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5665 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5666 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5668 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5669 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5671 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5672 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5674 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5675 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5676 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5678 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5679 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5682 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5684 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5685 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5686 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5687 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5688 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5689 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5690 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5692 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5693 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5694 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5695 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5696 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5698 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5699 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5702 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5703 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5704 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5705 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5706 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5707 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5709 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5711 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5712 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5713 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5714 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5715 printable escape sequences.
5717 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5718 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5721 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5722 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5725 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5726 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5727 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5728 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5729 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5731 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5732 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5733 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5735 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5737 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5738 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5741 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5742 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5743 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5744 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5745 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5746 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5747 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5748 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5749 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5752 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5753 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5754 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5755 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5759 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5760 ----------------------------------------
5762 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5763 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5764 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5765 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5766 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5767 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5770 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5771 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5772 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5773 historical information.
5779 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5781 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5782 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5784 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5785 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5788 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5789 filter fails to execute.
5791 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5792 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5793 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5794 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5795 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5797 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5799 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5800 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5801 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5802 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5804 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5805 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5806 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5807 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5808 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5810 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5812 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5814 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5815 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5816 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5817 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5819 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5820 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5821 sender verification.
5823 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5824 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5826 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5828 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5831 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5832 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5834 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5835 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5837 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5838 information about exactly what failed.
5840 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5842 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5843 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5844 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5846 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5847 It is now set to "smtps".
5849 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5850 ignore_target_hosts.
5852 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5853 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5854 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5855 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5858 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5859 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5860 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5862 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5863 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5864 wake it up if nothing else does.
5866 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5867 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5868 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5871 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5872 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5874 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5876 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5877 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5878 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5879 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5880 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5881 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5882 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5883 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5885 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5886 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5887 than one IP address.
5889 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5890 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5891 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5892 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5894 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5895 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5896 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5897 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5898 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5901 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5902 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5903 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5904 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5906 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5907 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5910 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5911 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5912 $sender_host_address.
5914 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5915 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5916 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5917 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5918 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5921 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5923 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5924 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5926 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5927 just the host names, not the priorities.
5929 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5930 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5931 controlled by a keyword.
5933 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5934 multiple records are returned.
5936 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5937 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5940 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5942 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5943 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5945 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5946 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5947 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5949 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5951 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5953 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5955 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5956 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5957 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5958 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5959 because the tests only now provoked it.
5961 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5962 (this can affect the format of dates).
5964 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5965 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5966 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5967 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5969 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5971 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5972 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5973 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5974 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5976 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5977 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5978 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5980 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5983 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5984 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5985 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5986 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5987 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5988 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5991 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5992 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5993 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5996 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5997 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5998 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
6000 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
6001 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
6002 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
6003 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
6004 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
6005 so I produce this patch..."
6007 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
6008 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
6011 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6012 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6013 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6014 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6017 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
6019 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
6020 long debug lines gets shown.
6022 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
6023 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
6025 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
6027 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
6028 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
6029 of $primary_hostname.
6031 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6032 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6033 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6034 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6035 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6036 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6037 by change 4.50/55 above.
6039 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6040 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6041 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6042 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6043 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6044 running as the user.
6047 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6048 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6049 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6052 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
6053 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
6055 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6056 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6057 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6058 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6059 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6061 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
6062 This has been fixed.
6064 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6065 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6066 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6067 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6070 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
6072 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
6073 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
6074 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
6075 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
6077 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
6078 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
6080 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
6081 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
6082 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
6084 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
6085 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
6086 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
6089 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
6090 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
6091 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
6093 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
6094 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
6095 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
6096 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
6098 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
6099 during host lookups.
6101 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
6102 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
6104 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
6106 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
6107 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
6108 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
6109 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
6110 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
6113 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
6114 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
6116 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
6117 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
6118 for the non-SMTP ACL.
6120 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
6122 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
6123 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
6124 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
6125 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
6126 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
6127 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
6130 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
6131 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
6132 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
6133 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
6134 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
6136 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
6139 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
6141 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
6142 "vacation" handling.
6144 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
6145 OS variants using glibc.
6147 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
6150 ----------------------------------------------------
6151 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
6152 ----------------------------------------------------
6158 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
6159 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
6162 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6163 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6166 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6167 filter fails to execute.
6169 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6170 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6171 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6172 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6173 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6175 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6176 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6177 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6178 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6180 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6181 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6182 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6183 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6184 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6186 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6188 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6189 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6190 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6191 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6193 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6194 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6195 sender verification.
6197 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6198 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6200 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6201 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6203 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6204 ignore_target_hosts.
6206 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6207 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6208 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6209 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6212 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6213 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6214 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6216 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6217 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6218 wake it up if nothing else does.
6220 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6221 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6222 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6225 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6226 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6228 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6230 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6231 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6234 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6235 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6238 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6239 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6240 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6241 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6242 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6245 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6246 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6249 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6250 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6251 $sender_host_address.
6253 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6255 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6256 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6257 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6259 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6262 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6263 (this can affect the format of dates).
6265 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6266 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6267 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6268 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6270 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6271 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6272 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6274 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6275 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6276 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6277 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6279 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6280 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6281 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6283 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6286 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6287 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6288 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6289 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6290 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6291 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6294 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6295 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6296 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6297 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6300 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6301 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6302 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6303 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6304 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6305 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6306 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6308 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6309 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6310 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6311 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6312 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6313 running as the user.
6316 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6317 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6318 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6321 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6322 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6323 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6324 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6325 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6327 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6328 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6329 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6330 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6333 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6334 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6335 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6336 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6337 because the tests only now provoked it.
6343 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6344 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6345 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6346 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6347 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6348 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6349 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6351 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6352 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6355 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6357 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6359 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6360 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6363 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6364 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6365 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6366 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6367 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6369 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6370 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6372 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6374 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6376 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6379 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6380 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6382 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6383 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6384 affecting debugging statements).
6386 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6388 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6389 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6390 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6391 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6392 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6393 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6394 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6395 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6396 after the received time, and all would be well.
6398 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6399 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6400 condition in an expansion string.
6402 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6404 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6405 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6406 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6407 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6408 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6409 job under whatever limits there are.
6411 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6413 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6416 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6417 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6418 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6419 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6422 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6423 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6424 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6425 binary data in such strings.
6427 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6429 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6430 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6431 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6432 failure, which is pointless.
6434 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6436 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6438 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6439 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6440 Sender: header lines.
6442 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6443 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6444 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6446 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6447 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6448 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6449 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6450 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6453 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6454 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6455 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6456 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6457 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6459 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6460 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6461 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6464 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6465 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6467 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6468 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6470 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6472 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6474 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6476 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6479 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6481 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6483 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6484 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6485 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6486 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6488 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6489 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6495 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6496 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6497 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6499 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6500 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6501 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6502 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6503 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6504 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6506 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6507 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6508 verification failure".
6510 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6511 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6512 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6513 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6515 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6516 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6517 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6518 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6519 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6520 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6521 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6522 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6523 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6524 treated as a timeout.
6526 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6527 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6528 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6529 not set for Exim filters).
6531 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6532 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6533 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6535 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6537 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6538 try to make them clearer.
6540 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6541 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6543 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6545 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6547 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6548 only the Cygwin environment.
6550 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6551 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6552 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6553 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6554 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6556 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6557 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6558 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6559 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6560 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6561 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6562 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6564 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6565 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6567 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6569 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6570 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6571 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6573 To: susanne@some.where
6575 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6576 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6577 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6578 of addresses in From: header lines).
6580 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6581 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6582 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6584 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6585 treated as non-personal.
6587 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6588 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6590 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6592 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6594 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6595 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6596 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6598 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6599 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6601 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6602 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6603 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6604 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6605 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6606 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6608 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6609 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6610 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6611 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6612 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6613 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6614 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6615 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6617 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6619 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6620 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6622 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6623 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6624 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6626 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6627 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6629 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6630 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6631 rather than long int.
6633 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6635 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6641 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6642 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6643 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6644 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6645 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6646 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6652 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6653 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6655 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6656 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6657 socklen_t is defined.
6659 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6662 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6665 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6666 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6667 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6668 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6669 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6671 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6672 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6673 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6674 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6676 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6677 of flapping under certain conditions.
6679 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6680 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6681 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6683 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6685 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6687 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6688 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6689 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6690 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6692 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6693 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6694 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6695 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6696 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6697 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6698 preserved with the message after it was received.
6700 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6701 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6702 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6703 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6704 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6705 test suite worked just fine.
6707 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6708 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6709 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6711 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6712 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6715 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6716 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6717 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6718 does not fully solve it.
6720 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6721 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6722 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6723 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6724 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6726 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6727 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6728 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6730 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6731 string, for example:
6733 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6735 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6736 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6737 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6738 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6739 the routers could not see them.
6741 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6742 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6744 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6745 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6748 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6749 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6750 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6751 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6752 that needed quoting.
6754 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6755 was not being matched caselessly.
6757 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6760 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6761 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6762 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6763 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6764 when use_sender is false.
6766 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6768 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6770 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6772 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6773 the configuration file.
6775 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6776 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6778 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6780 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6781 bytes in the message body.
6783 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6784 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6787 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6789 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6791 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6792 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6793 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6794 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6801 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6802 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6804 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6805 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6806 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6807 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6808 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6810 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6811 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6813 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6814 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6815 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6817 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6818 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6819 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6821 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6824 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6825 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6826 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6827 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6828 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6829 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6830 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6836 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6837 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6838 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6839 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6840 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6841 default (and expected) setting.
6843 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6844 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6845 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6846 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6848 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6849 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6851 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6854 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6855 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6856 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6857 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6858 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6859 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6861 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6862 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6863 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6865 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6866 part (NOT match_host).
6868 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6870 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6871 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6872 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6873 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6874 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6875 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6876 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6877 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6878 the same named file.
6880 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6881 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6884 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6885 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6886 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6887 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6890 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6891 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6892 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6894 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6896 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6898 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6900 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6901 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6903 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6904 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6905 before starting the TLS session.
6907 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6909 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6910 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6912 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6913 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6914 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6915 colon in the middle).
6921 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6922 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6923 multiple configurations are in use.
6925 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6926 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6927 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6928 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6929 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6930 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6932 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6933 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6935 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6936 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6937 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6939 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6940 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6943 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6944 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6946 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6948 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6949 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6951 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6959 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6960 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6961 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6962 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6963 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6965 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6968 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6969 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6970 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6971 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6972 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6973 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6975 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6976 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6977 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6978 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6979 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6980 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6981 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6984 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6985 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6986 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6987 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6988 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6990 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6992 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6993 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6994 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6996 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6998 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6999 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
7000 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
7003 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
7004 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
7006 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
7007 Three changes have been made:
7009 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
7010 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
7011 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
7012 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
7013 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
7015 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
7018 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
7019 the modified behaviour.
7025 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
7028 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
7029 indeed breaks things for older releases.
7031 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
7032 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
7033 try to track down a specific problem.
7035 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
7036 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
7037 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
7039 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
7042 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
7043 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
7044 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
7045 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
7046 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
7047 some earlier ones do not.
7049 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
7051 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
7052 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
7053 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7054 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
7055 address literals are enabled, of course).
7057 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
7059 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
7060 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
7061 by a command such as
7065 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
7067 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
7069 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
7070 remained set. It is now erased.
7072 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
7073 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
7075 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
7076 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
7077 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
7078 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
7079 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
7080 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
7081 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
7082 appropriate error code.
7084 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
7085 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
7086 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
7087 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
7088 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
7089 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
7091 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
7092 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
7093 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
7095 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
7096 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
7097 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
7098 terminate the header.
7100 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
7101 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
7102 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
7104 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
7105 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
7106 (4.30/29). In particular:
7108 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
7111 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
7112 to write a maildirsize file.
7114 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
7115 the transport, the new value overrides.
7117 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
7120 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
7121 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
7122 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
7125 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
7126 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
7127 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
7130 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
7131 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
7132 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
7134 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
7135 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
7138 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
7139 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
7140 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
7142 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
7144 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
7146 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
7148 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
7149 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
7152 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
7153 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
7154 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
7155 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
7156 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
7157 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
7158 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
7161 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
7162 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
7163 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
7164 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
7165 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
7168 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
7169 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
7170 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
7171 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
7172 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
7173 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
7174 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
7175 cached value only when the same options are set.
7177 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
7179 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
7180 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
7181 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
7182 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
7183 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
7185 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
7186 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
7187 it is clearly obsolete.
7189 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
7192 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
7193 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
7194 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
7197 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
7198 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
7199 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
7200 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
7201 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
7203 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
7204 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
7205 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
7206 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
7208 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
7210 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
7212 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
7213 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7216 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7217 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7218 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7219 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7220 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7221 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7224 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7225 with the -f command-line option.
7227 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7228 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7229 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7230 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7231 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7232 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7234 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7235 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7238 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7239 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7240 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7241 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7242 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7243 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7244 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7245 buffer is too small.
7247 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7248 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7250 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7251 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7252 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7253 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7254 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7255 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7256 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7257 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7258 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7260 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7261 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7262 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7264 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7265 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7268 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7269 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7270 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7271 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7272 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7274 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7275 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7276 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7277 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7280 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7282 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7284 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7285 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7287 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7288 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7289 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7291 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7292 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7293 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7294 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7295 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7297 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7298 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7299 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7300 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7301 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7302 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7303 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7305 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7306 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7307 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7308 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7309 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7310 the test of how many are available.
7312 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7313 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7314 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7315 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7316 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7317 new message is started.
7319 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7320 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7322 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7323 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7325 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7326 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7327 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7330 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7331 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7332 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7333 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7334 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7335 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7336 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7338 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7339 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7340 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7341 interpreted as octal.
7343 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7346 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7347 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7348 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7349 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7350 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7351 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7353 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7354 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7355 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7356 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7358 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7359 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7360 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7361 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7363 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7364 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7367 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7368 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7370 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7372 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7373 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7374 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7375 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7377 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7378 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7379 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7380 supplied", which is not helpful.
7382 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7383 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7384 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7386 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7387 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7388 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7389 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7390 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7391 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7392 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7393 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7395 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7396 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7397 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7398 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7399 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7401 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7402 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7403 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7404 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7405 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7406 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7408 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7409 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7410 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7412 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7414 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7415 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7416 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7419 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7421 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7422 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7423 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7424 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7425 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7426 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7427 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7428 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7430 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7431 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7432 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7433 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7434 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7436 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7439 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7440 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7441 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7442 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7443 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7444 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7445 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7446 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7447 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7453 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7454 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7455 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7457 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7460 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7461 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7462 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7464 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7465 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7466 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7467 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7468 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7469 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7471 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7472 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7473 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7474 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7475 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7476 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7477 the Exim test suite.
7479 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7480 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7481 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7482 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7484 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7485 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7486 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7487 specify it in this variable.
7489 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7490 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7491 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7492 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7494 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7495 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7496 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7497 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7499 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7500 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7501 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7502 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7503 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7505 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7507 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7510 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7511 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7512 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7513 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7514 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7516 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7517 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7519 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7520 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7521 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7522 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7523 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7525 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7526 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7528 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7529 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7530 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7532 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7533 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7535 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7536 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7538 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7539 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7540 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7542 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7543 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7545 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7546 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7547 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7548 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7550 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7552 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7553 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7554 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7555 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7557 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7559 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7560 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7562 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7564 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7565 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7566 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7567 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7568 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7569 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7571 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7573 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7574 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7577 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7579 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7580 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7582 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7583 550 Sender verify failed
7585 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7586 the final line of the response.
7588 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7589 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7590 all other user lookups.
7592 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7595 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7596 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7597 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7598 result into an int without checking.
7600 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7601 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7602 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7604 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7605 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7606 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7607 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7609 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7612 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7613 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7615 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7616 to the empty sender.
7618 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7619 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7620 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7621 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7622 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7623 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7624 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7627 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7628 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7629 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7630 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7633 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7634 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7636 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7639 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7640 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7642 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7644 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7645 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7648 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7649 as soon as it is encountered.
7651 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7653 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7656 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7657 recognizes a tab character.
7659 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7660 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7661 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7662 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7664 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7666 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7669 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7671 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7673 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7674 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7677 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7678 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7679 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7680 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7681 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7683 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7684 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7686 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7687 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7688 list (.included file names were always shown).
7690 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7691 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7692 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7695 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7696 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7698 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7700 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7702 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7704 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7705 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7706 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7707 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7708 failures to open the logs.
7710 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7711 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7712 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7713 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7714 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7715 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7716 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7722 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7723 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7724 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7727 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7728 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7729 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7731 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7732 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7733 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7735 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7736 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7737 causing some misleading effects.
7739 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7740 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7741 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7743 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7744 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7745 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7746 queue-runner function directly.
7752 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7755 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7756 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7757 was always written to the default place.
7759 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7760 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7761 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7763 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7765 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7767 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7768 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7769 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7771 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7772 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7775 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7776 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7777 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7779 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7780 command line option is disabled.
7782 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7783 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7785 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7787 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7789 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7790 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7792 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7794 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7795 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7796 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7797 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7798 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7799 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7801 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7802 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7805 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7806 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7808 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7809 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7811 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7812 received was valid base64.
7814 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7815 name of the variable that was being set.
7817 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7819 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7820 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7821 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7822 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7823 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7824 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7826 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7828 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7829 nor realm was specified.
7831 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7832 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7833 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7834 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7836 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7837 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7838 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7840 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7841 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7842 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7844 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7845 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7846 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7847 some systems use these upper case variants.
7849 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7850 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7851 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7852 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7854 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7856 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7857 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7859 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7860 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7863 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7865 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7866 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7867 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7868 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7870 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7873 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7874 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7875 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7877 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7878 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7880 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7881 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7882 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7883 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7885 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7886 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7887 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7889 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7891 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7892 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7893 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7894 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7897 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7898 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7899 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7901 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7903 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7904 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7906 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7907 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7909 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7910 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7911 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7912 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7913 when emails are that large.
7920 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7921 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7923 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7924 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7925 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7927 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7928 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7929 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7931 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7932 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7933 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7934 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7935 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7937 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7938 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7939 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7940 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7941 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7944 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7945 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7946 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7947 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7948 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7949 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7950 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7951 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7952 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7953 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7954 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7955 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7956 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7957 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7959 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7960 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7963 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7964 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7965 error should be diagnosed.
7967 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7968 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7969 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7970 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7971 appeared instead of "NULL".
7973 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7974 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7975 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7976 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7977 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7978 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7981 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7982 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7983 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7989 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7990 or receiver verification errors.
7992 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7995 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7996 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7997 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7998 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
8000 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
8001 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
8002 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
8003 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
8004 shouldn't happen again.
8006 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
8007 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
8008 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
8010 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
8011 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
8013 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
8015 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
8016 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
8018 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
8019 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
8022 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
8023 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
8024 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
8026 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
8027 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
8028 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
8029 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
8031 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
8032 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
8033 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
8034 to define what should happen).
8036 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
8037 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
8038 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
8040 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
8042 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
8044 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
8045 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
8047 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
8048 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
8049 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
8050 structure in all cases.
8052 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
8053 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
8054 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
8055 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
8057 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
8058 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
8061 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
8062 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
8064 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
8065 MD5 (which is deprecated).
8067 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
8068 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
8069 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
8071 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
8072 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
8073 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
8075 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
8076 the book and for uniformity.
8078 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
8080 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
8081 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
8082 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
8083 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
8084 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
8085 non-existent command as the problem.
8087 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
8088 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
8089 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
8091 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
8093 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
8094 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
8095 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
8097 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
8098 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
8099 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
8100 timestamps using strftime().
8102 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
8103 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
8105 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
8106 transport-time rewrites.
8108 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
8109 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
8110 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
8111 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
8113 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
8114 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
8116 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
8117 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
8118 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
8119 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
8122 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
8123 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
8124 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
8125 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
8126 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
8127 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
8128 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
8130 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
8131 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
8132 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
8133 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
8134 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
8136 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
8137 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
8138 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
8139 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
8140 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
8141 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
8142 remaining text gets split now.
8144 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
8145 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
8146 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
8147 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
8149 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
8150 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
8151 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
8152 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
8155 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
8156 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
8157 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
8158 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
8159 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
8160 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
8161 passed through if needed.
8163 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
8164 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
8165 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
8166 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
8167 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
8168 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
8170 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
8171 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
8172 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
8173 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
8174 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
8176 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
8177 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
8178 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
8179 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
8180 incorrect size information for certain domains.
8182 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
8183 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
8186 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
8187 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
8188 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
8189 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
8190 mayhem of various kinds.
8192 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
8193 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
8194 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
8195 the right test for positive values.
8197 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
8198 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
8199 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
8200 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
8201 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
8202 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
8203 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
8204 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
8205 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
8206 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
8209 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
8212 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
8213 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8216 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8217 the existing equality matching.
8219 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8220 dealing with inode numbers.
8222 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8223 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8224 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8226 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8227 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8228 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8229 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8232 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8233 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8234 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8235 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8236 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8237 relay addresses has also been removed.
8239 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8241 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8242 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8243 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8245 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8246 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8247 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8248 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8249 processing applies to CR:
8251 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8252 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8254 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8255 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8256 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8257 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8259 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8260 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8261 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8263 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8264 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8265 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8266 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8267 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8268 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8271 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8274 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8275 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8276 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8277 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8280 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8282 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8284 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8286 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8287 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8288 not considered personal.
8290 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8292 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8294 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8296 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8297 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8298 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8299 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8300 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8301 header lines, and spool format errors.
8303 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8304 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8305 for more flexibility.
8307 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8308 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8309 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8311 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8314 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8315 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8316 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8317 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8318 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8319 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8320 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8321 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8322 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8324 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8325 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8326 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8327 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8328 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8329 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8330 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8332 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8333 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8334 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8336 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8337 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8338 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8339 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8340 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8341 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8342 instead of killing the process with assert().
8344 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8345 than Unicode encoding.
8347 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8348 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8349 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8350 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8352 77. Added process_log_path.
8354 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8355 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8357 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8358 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8360 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8361 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8362 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8364 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8365 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8366 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8367 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8368 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8371 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8372 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8375 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8376 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8377 they will be used during message reception.
8383 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.