1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
10 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
11 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
13 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
14 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
15 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
16 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
18 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
19 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
20 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
21 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
22 so could be handling tainted values.
24 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
25 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
26 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
28 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
29 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
30 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
33 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
34 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
35 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
36 to align better with RFC 6125.
38 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
39 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
40 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
41 by adding a relase action in that path.
43 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
44 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
45 dynamically-created buffers.
47 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
48 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
49 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
50 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
52 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
53 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
54 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
55 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
57 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
58 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
59 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
61 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
62 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
63 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
64 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
66 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
67 excluded, not matching the documentation.
69 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
70 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
72 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
73 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
74 this was a coding error.
76 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
77 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
78 spent suspended, ignoring the Posix definition. Previously we assumed
79 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
80 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
81 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
82 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
84 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
85 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
86 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignement. Discovery and fix by
87 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
89 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
90 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
91 dynamicaly created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
92 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
93 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
95 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
96 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
99 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
100 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
101 domain-parking registrar.
103 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
104 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
105 after removing the newline.
107 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
108 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
109 option set, which was previously used.
111 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
114 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
115 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
116 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
117 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
119 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
120 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
121 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
122 exim.dev.20160529.3).
124 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
125 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
126 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
128 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
129 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
130 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
133 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
134 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
135 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
137 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
138 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
139 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
140 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
143 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
144 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
145 there, handle PRX and TFO.
147 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
148 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
149 in a panic-log trigerrable by sending a message with a long address in
150 a header. Fix by increaing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
151 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
153 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
154 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
155 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
156 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
159 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
160 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
162 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
165 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
166 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
167 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
168 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
169 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
171 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
173 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
174 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
175 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
176 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
177 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
178 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
180 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
181 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
183 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
184 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
185 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentidcation.
187 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
188 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
191 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
192 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
193 of a new variable: $auth4.
195 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
196 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
197 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
198 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
199 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
201 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
202 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
203 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
204 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
206 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
207 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
208 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
210 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
211 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
212 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
213 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
216 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
217 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
218 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
221 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
222 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
223 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
224 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
226 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
227 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
229 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
230 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
231 looked as if if might be one.
233 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
234 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
235 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
236 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
237 messages can show the proxy information.
239 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
240 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
241 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
242 "queue_time_exclusive".
244 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
245 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover epxansions
246 rerulting in acl names and inline ACL content.
248 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
249 making it unusable in complex expressions.
251 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
252 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
255 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
257 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
259 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
261 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
262 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
263 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
264 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
266 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
267 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
269 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
270 better. Reported by Qualys.
272 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
273 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
276 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
278 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
281 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
283 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
284 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
285 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
286 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
288 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
289 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
291 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
292 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
293 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
294 mode until after various protocol state checks.
295 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
297 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
299 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
300 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
302 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
305 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
306 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
307 executed child processes (if any).
309 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
312 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
313 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
314 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
315 been reported on other platforms.
321 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
322 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
323 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
325 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
327 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
328 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
331 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
332 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
333 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
335 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
337 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
339 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
340 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
341 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
343 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
344 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
345 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
347 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
348 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
350 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
351 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
354 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
355 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
356 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
357 should both provide the file and set the option.
358 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
360 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
361 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
363 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
364 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
365 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
366 Authentication-Results: header.
368 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
369 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
370 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
371 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
373 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
374 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
375 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
376 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
377 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
378 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
379 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
381 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
382 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
383 copies while it is still usable.
385 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
386 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
387 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
389 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
390 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
392 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
393 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
394 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
395 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
397 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
398 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
399 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
402 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
403 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
404 - the pipe transport command
405 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
406 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
408 - paths used by single-key lookups
409 Previously this was permitted.
411 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
412 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
413 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
414 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
416 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
417 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
418 support larger malloc requests.
420 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
421 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
422 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
423 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
425 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
426 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
427 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
428 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
431 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
432 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
433 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
434 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
435 data being length-specified.
437 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
438 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
439 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
440 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
442 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
443 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
444 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
445 not being properly tracked.
447 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
448 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
449 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
450 minute could be seen.
452 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
453 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
454 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
456 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
457 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
459 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
460 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
463 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
465 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
466 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
468 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
469 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
470 filesystem as sufficient validation.
472 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
473 argument is supplied.
475 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
476 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
477 access under Exim's current working directory.
479 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
480 Previously no event was raised.
482 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
483 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
484 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
487 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
488 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
489 the size of the signature hash.
491 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
492 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
494 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
495 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
496 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
497 dropped between messages.
499 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
500 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
501 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
502 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
504 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
505 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
506 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
507 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
508 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
509 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
510 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
511 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
512 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
514 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
515 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
516 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
518 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
519 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
526 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
527 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
529 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
530 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
533 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
536 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
538 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
540 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
541 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
543 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
544 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
545 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
546 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
547 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
548 suitably configured).
550 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
551 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
553 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
554 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
557 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
558 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
560 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
561 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
562 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
563 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
566 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
567 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
568 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
570 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
573 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
574 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
576 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
577 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
578 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
579 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
582 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
583 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
584 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
585 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
588 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
589 shared (NFS) environment.
591 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
592 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
595 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
596 on some platforms for bit 31.
598 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
599 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
600 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
601 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
602 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
603 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
604 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
605 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
607 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
609 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
610 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
612 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
613 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
616 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
617 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
620 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
621 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
622 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
625 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
626 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
627 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
629 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
630 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
631 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
632 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
633 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
635 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
638 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
639 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
640 be requested on all coneections.
642 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
643 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
645 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
647 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
648 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
649 one for these; the option was ignored.
651 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
652 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
653 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
654 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
656 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
657 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
658 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
661 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
662 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
663 error ignored was made.
665 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
667 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
668 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
669 values, to catch one form of exploit.
671 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
672 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
673 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
675 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
676 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
679 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
680 them in our smtp response.
682 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
683 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
684 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
685 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
686 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
688 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
689 link count into consideration.
691 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
692 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
694 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
695 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
696 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
699 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
701 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
703 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
705 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
706 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
707 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
708 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
710 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
712 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
713 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
716 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
717 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
718 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
720 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
721 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
722 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
724 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
725 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
726 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
727 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
728 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
729 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
730 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
731 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
733 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
734 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
735 resulted in an indefinite loop.
737 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
738 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
739 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
745 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
746 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
748 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
749 non-signal-safe functions being used.
751 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
752 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
753 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
755 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
756 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
757 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
759 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
760 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
761 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
762 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
763 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
766 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
767 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
769 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
770 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
771 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
772 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
773 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
774 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
775 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
777 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
778 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
780 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
783 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
784 Previously this would segfault.
786 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
789 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
790 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
791 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
792 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
793 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
794 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
796 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
798 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
799 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
800 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
801 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
803 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
805 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
806 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
807 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
808 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
810 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
812 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
814 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
815 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
816 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
818 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
819 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
820 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
822 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
824 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
825 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
826 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
827 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
829 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
830 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
831 promised '?' replacement.
833 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
835 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
836 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
837 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
838 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
839 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
841 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
842 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
843 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
845 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
846 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
847 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
849 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
850 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
851 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
853 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
854 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
855 hope that is portable enough.
857 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
858 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
859 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
860 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
862 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
863 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
864 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
866 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
867 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
868 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
869 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
871 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
872 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
874 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
875 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
876 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
877 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
879 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
880 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
881 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
883 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
884 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
885 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
886 the previous G, M, k.
888 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
889 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
892 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
893 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
894 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
895 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
897 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
898 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
900 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
901 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
902 off past the nul-terimation.
904 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
905 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
906 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
907 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
908 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
910 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
912 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
913 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
914 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
917 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
918 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
920 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
921 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
922 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
924 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
925 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
926 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
928 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
929 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
935 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
936 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
937 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
938 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
939 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
940 be defined in redis_servers.
942 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
943 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
945 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
946 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
947 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
948 extant use locations.
950 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
951 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
953 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
954 Previously only the last row was returned.
956 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
957 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
958 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
959 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
962 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
963 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
964 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
965 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
966 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
967 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
968 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
969 Main pool for expansions.
970 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
971 active in the testsuite.
972 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
974 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
975 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
976 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
977 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
980 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
981 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
984 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
985 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
986 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
988 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
989 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
990 ClamAV interface method is removed.
992 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
993 rows affected is given instead).
995 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
996 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
998 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
999 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1000 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1001 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1002 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1004 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1005 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1006 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1008 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1009 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1010 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1011 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1014 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1015 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1016 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1019 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1021 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1022 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1024 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1025 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1026 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1028 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1029 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1030 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1033 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1034 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1036 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1037 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1038 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1040 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1041 for the build is renamed.
1043 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1044 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1045 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1047 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1048 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1049 result replacing the original.
1051 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1052 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1053 and the resources needed to be freed.
1055 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1057 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1060 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1061 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1062 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1063 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1065 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1066 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1068 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1069 newer versions of the scanner.
1071 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1072 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1073 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1074 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1075 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1076 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1077 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1079 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1080 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1081 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1082 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1083 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1084 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1085 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1086 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1087 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1088 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1090 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1091 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1093 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1095 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1096 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1098 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1099 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1101 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1102 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1103 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1105 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1106 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1107 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1108 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1110 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1111 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1114 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1115 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1117 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1118 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1119 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1120 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1121 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1123 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1124 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1127 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1128 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1130 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1133 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1134 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1135 "bare" representation.
1137 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1138 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1139 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1140 corrupted the output.
1146 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1147 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1148 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1149 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1151 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1152 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1154 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1155 This permits better logging.
1157 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1158 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1159 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1160 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1161 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1162 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1164 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1165 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1168 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1169 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1170 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1172 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1173 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1175 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1176 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1177 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1178 client, there is no benefit for these.
1179 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1180 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1181 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1184 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1185 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1187 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1188 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1189 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1191 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1192 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1194 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1195 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1196 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1197 signature and again for transmission.
1199 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1200 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1201 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1203 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1204 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1205 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1206 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1207 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1208 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1209 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1211 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1212 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1213 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1214 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1216 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1217 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1218 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1219 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1220 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1221 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1224 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1225 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1226 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1227 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1230 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1231 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1232 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1233 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1236 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1237 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1240 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1241 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1242 banner-time rejection.
1244 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1247 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1248 is the name of a transport.
1251 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1253 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1254 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1256 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1257 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1258 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1261 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1262 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1263 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1264 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1266 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1267 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1268 initial verify call returned a defer.
1270 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1271 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1273 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1274 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1276 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1277 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1279 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1280 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1282 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1283 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1286 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1287 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1289 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1290 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1291 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1293 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1294 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1295 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1296 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1298 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1299 and confused the parent.
1301 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1302 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1304 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1307 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1308 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1309 out-of-order delivery.
1311 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1312 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1313 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1316 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1317 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1320 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1321 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1322 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1324 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1325 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1326 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1327 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1328 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1329 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1331 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1332 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1333 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1335 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1336 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1337 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1339 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1340 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1341 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1342 though a different problem.
1348 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1349 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1351 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1353 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1354 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1356 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1357 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1359 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1360 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1361 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1362 before acknowledging the chunk.
1364 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1365 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1366 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1368 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1369 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1370 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1373 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1374 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1375 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1377 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1378 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1380 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1381 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1382 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1383 body hash calculated value.
1385 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1386 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1387 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1389 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1391 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1392 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1394 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1395 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1396 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1398 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1399 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1400 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1401 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1402 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1403 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1405 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1406 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1407 past that check, despite the cost.
1409 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1410 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1411 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1413 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1414 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1415 TLS library to consume.
1417 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1419 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1421 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1422 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1423 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1424 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1425 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1426 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1427 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1429 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1431 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1433 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1434 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1435 should be warning-free.
1437 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1439 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1440 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1442 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1443 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1444 general solution here.
1446 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1447 already-broken messages in the queue.
1449 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1451 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1457 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1458 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1460 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1461 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1462 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1464 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1465 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1466 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1467 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1468 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1469 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1470 if one fails this test.
1471 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1472 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1474 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1475 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1477 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1478 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1480 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1481 in rewrites and routers.
1483 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1484 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1486 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1487 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1489 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1491 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1494 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1495 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1496 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1497 connection after a verify cache hit.
1498 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1500 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1501 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1503 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1504 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1505 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1506 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1507 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1509 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1510 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1512 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1513 Previously they were not counted.
1515 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1516 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1517 that needed the lookup.
1519 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1520 distinguished as "(=".
1522 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1523 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1525 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1527 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1528 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1530 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1531 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1533 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1534 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1537 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1538 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1539 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1540 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1542 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1544 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1545 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1546 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1548 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1549 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1550 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1553 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1554 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1555 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1558 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1559 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1560 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1562 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1563 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1566 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1568 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1569 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1571 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1572 are not in the system include path.
1574 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1575 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1576 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1577 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1579 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1580 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1581 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1583 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1585 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1586 an incoming connection.
1588 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1591 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1592 fallback to "prime256v1".
1594 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1595 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1601 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1602 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1603 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1604 client dropping the TLS connection.
1606 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1607 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1609 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1610 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1611 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1612 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1615 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1616 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1617 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1618 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1619 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1620 check on the next write.
1622 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1623 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1624 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1625 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1626 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1628 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1629 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1631 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1632 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1633 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1635 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1636 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1637 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1638 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1640 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1641 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1643 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1644 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1646 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1647 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1648 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1651 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1653 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1655 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1657 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1658 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1660 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1661 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1663 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1665 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1666 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1668 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1670 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1671 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1673 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1675 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1676 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1677 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1678 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1679 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1680 they will retry in-clear.
1681 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1682 at installation time.
1684 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1685 with the $config_file variable.
1687 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1688 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1689 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1690 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1691 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1693 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1694 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1695 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1696 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1697 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1699 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1701 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1702 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1703 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1704 list order is no longer honoured.
1706 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1707 for DKIM processing.
1709 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1710 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1712 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1713 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1714 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1715 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1717 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1718 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1720 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1721 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1723 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1724 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1726 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1728 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1729 cached by the daemon.
1731 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1732 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1734 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1735 keys are given for lookup.
1737 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1738 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1739 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1740 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1742 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1743 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1744 server-side so match that on older versions.
1746 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1747 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1748 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1750 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1751 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1753 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1754 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1755 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1756 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1757 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1758 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1759 initial truncated version.
1761 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1763 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1765 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1766 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1768 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1770 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1772 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1773 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1776 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1777 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1780 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1781 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1783 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1784 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1787 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1788 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1789 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1791 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1792 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1793 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1794 extraction. Accept either.
1800 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1803 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1805 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1808 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1809 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1810 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1811 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1813 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1814 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1815 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1817 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1818 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1819 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1822 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1825 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1826 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1827 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1828 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1829 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1831 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1832 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1833 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1835 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1837 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1838 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1840 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1841 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1843 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1846 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1847 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1849 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1850 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1851 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1853 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1854 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1855 specify a port-range.
1857 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1858 timeout value per server.
1860 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1861 now have the list separator specified.
1863 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1866 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1869 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1871 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1872 rather than the verbs used.
1874 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1875 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1877 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1879 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1880 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1882 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1883 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1885 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1886 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1888 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1890 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1892 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1893 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1894 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1895 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1897 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1899 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1900 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1902 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1903 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1905 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1907 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1909 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1911 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1912 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1914 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1915 added for tls authenticator.
1917 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1923 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1924 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1925 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1926 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1927 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1928 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1929 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1931 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1932 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1933 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1934 function when detected.
1936 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1937 cause callback expansion.
1939 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1940 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1941 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1942 instead of bool when processing it.
1944 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1945 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1947 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1949 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1951 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1953 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1954 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1956 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1957 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1958 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1959 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1960 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1961 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1963 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1964 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1967 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1968 version 3.3.6 or later.
1970 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1971 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1972 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1973 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1974 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1975 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1978 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1979 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1981 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1982 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1983 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1986 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1987 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1988 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1990 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1991 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1993 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1994 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1997 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1999 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2000 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2002 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2003 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2006 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2008 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2011 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2012 output list separator was used.
2017 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2018 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2021 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2022 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2024 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2026 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2027 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2033 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2035 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2036 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2037 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2038 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2039 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2040 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2042 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2043 utilities have not been installed.
2045 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2046 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2048 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2049 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2051 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2052 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2053 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2054 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2056 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2058 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2059 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2061 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2064 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2066 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2067 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2068 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2070 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2071 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2072 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2073 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2074 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2075 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2077 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2079 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2080 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2082 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2085 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2087 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2089 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2090 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2092 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2093 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2095 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2097 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2099 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2100 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2102 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2103 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2104 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2106 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2107 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2108 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2111 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2113 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2114 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2117 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2118 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2121 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2122 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2124 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2125 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2127 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2129 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2130 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2131 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2133 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2134 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2136 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2137 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2140 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2141 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2142 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2144 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2146 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2147 Christian Aistleitner.
2149 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2151 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2152 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2154 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2155 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2157 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2158 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2160 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2161 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2163 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2164 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2166 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2167 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2168 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2170 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2172 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2173 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2176 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2178 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2179 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2186 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2188 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2189 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2191 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2194 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2195 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2198 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2200 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2201 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2202 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2203 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2204 using channel bindings instead).
2206 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2207 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2208 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2209 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2210 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2213 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2215 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2217 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2218 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2220 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2221 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2222 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2224 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2226 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2228 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2229 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2231 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2233 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2235 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2237 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2238 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2240 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2242 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2243 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2246 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2247 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2249 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2250 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2253 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2255 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2257 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2258 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2260 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2263 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2264 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2266 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2267 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2269 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2271 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2273 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2276 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2279 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2281 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2282 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2283 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2284 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2286 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2288 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2289 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2290 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2291 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2294 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2295 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2296 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2298 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2299 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2300 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2301 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2303 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2304 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2305 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2306 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2307 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2308 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2309 delivery, as in LMTP.
2311 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2312 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2314 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2316 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2320 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2321 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2322 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2323 username as equal to the username.
2325 This change corrects that bug.
2327 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2328 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2329 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2331 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2333 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2334 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2335 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2336 NULL dereference and crash.
2338 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2340 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2341 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2342 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2344 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2346 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2347 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2348 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2349 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2350 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2351 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2352 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2353 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2354 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2355 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2356 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2358 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2359 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2361 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2362 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2365 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2366 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2367 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2368 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2369 an empty string is now equivalent.
2371 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2372 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2373 not performing validation itself.
2375 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2376 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2378 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2381 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2383 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2384 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2385 other false fix of the same issue.
2386 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2389 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2390 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2392 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2393 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2394 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2396 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2397 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2398 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2400 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2402 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2404 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2405 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2407 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2410 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2411 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2412 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2413 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2414 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2416 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2417 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2419 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2420 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2423 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2424 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2425 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2426 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2428 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2430 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2431 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2432 from multiple comments on this bug.
2434 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2436 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2437 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2440 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2441 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2443 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2444 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2450 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2452 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2458 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2459 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2460 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2462 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2464 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2467 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2469 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2471 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2473 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2474 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2476 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2477 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2479 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2480 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2482 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2483 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2484 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2486 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2488 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2489 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2491 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2493 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2495 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2496 non-compliant senders.
2497 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2499 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2500 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2501 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2503 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2504 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2505 in spool file corruption.
2507 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2508 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2509 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2512 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2513 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2514 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2516 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2517 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2519 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2521 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2523 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2525 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2526 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2527 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2529 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2530 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2531 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2532 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2534 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2535 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2537 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2538 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2539 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2540 resolver implementation change.
2542 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2543 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2545 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2547 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2549 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2550 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2552 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2553 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2555 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2556 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2558 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2559 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2560 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2561 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2562 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2564 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2566 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2567 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2568 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2570 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2572 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2573 read-only, out of scope).
2574 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2576 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2577 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2578 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2579 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2581 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2583 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2584 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2585 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2586 real issues in debug logging.
2588 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2589 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2591 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2592 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2593 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2595 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2596 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2597 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2600 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2601 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2603 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2604 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2605 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2606 needs to override this, it can.
2608 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2609 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2610 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2612 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2613 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2614 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2615 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2617 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2623 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2624 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2626 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2628 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2631 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2632 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2634 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2635 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2636 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2638 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2639 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2640 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2641 not safe for signals.
2643 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2644 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2645 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2646 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2649 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2651 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2652 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2653 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2654 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2655 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2657 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2658 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2659 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2660 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2661 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2662 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2664 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2665 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2666 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2667 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2669 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2670 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2671 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2672 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2674 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2675 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2676 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2677 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2678 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2679 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2680 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2681 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2682 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2684 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2685 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2686 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2687 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2689 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2690 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2691 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2692 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2693 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2694 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2695 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2696 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2697 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2698 details in the main documentation.
2700 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2702 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2704 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2705 repository when doing development or release builds.
2707 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2708 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2710 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2711 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2714 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2716 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2717 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2719 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2720 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2722 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2723 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2725 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2726 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2728 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2729 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2731 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2733 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2736 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2737 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2738 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2740 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2742 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2744 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2745 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2751 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2753 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2754 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2756 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2758 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2760 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2763 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2764 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2766 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2767 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2769 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2770 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2772 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2775 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2776 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2778 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2779 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2780 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2781 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2783 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2784 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2790 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2793 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2794 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2795 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2797 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2798 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2800 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2801 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2802 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2804 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2805 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2807 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2808 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2810 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2811 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2813 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2814 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2816 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2817 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2819 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2822 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2823 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2825 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2826 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2828 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2829 SQL string expansion failure details.
2830 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2832 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2833 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2835 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2836 extern declarations in function scope.
2837 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2839 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2840 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2841 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2844 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2845 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2847 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2848 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2850 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2851 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2853 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2854 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2856 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2857 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2860 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2862 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2864 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2865 Patch by Simon Arlott
2867 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2868 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2874 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2875 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2877 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2878 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2880 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2882 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2883 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2884 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2886 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2887 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2888 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2890 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2891 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2892 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2893 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2895 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2896 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2897 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2898 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2900 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2901 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2902 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2905 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2908 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2909 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2910 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2911 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2912 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2918 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2919 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2920 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2922 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2923 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2925 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2927 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2929 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2931 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2933 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2935 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2936 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2937 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2938 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2940 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2941 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2942 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2943 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2944 more caution in buffer sizes.
2946 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2948 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2950 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2952 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2954 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2956 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2958 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2960 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2961 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2962 ignore trailing whitespace.
2964 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2966 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2969 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2970 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2972 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2973 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2974 Notification from John Horne.
2976 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2979 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2980 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2983 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2986 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2987 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2988 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2990 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2991 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2992 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2995 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2996 option (effectively making it always true).
2998 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2999 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3001 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3002 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3004 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3005 run-time user, instead of root.
3007 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3008 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3010 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3011 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3014 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3015 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3016 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3018 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3020 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3026 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3027 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3030 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3031 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3034 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3035 Patch from Alain Williams
3037 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3039 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3040 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3042 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3043 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3045 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3047 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3049 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3050 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3052 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3054 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3056 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3057 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3058 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3060 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3061 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3063 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3064 Patch by Simon Arlott
3066 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3067 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3073 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3075 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3077 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3079 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3081 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3087 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3088 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3090 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3091 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3094 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3095 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3096 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3098 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3099 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3101 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3102 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3103 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3104 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3106 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3107 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3108 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3110 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3112 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3114 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3115 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3117 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3119 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3120 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3121 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3122 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3124 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3125 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3127 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3129 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3131 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3132 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3134 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3135 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3137 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3138 that they are available at delivery time.
3140 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3142 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3143 incoming_port log selectors.
3145 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3146 setting expands to an empty string.
3148 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3149 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3151 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3152 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3154 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3155 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3157 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3158 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3160 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3161 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3163 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3164 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3166 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3168 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3169 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3171 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3172 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3174 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3176 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3177 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3179 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3181 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3183 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3186 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3187 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3189 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3190 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3192 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3193 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3195 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3196 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3198 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3199 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3201 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3202 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3204 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3205 plus update to original patch.
3207 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3209 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3210 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3212 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3214 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3216 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3218 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3220 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3221 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3223 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3224 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3226 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3227 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3229 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3230 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3232 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3234 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3236 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3238 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3244 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3245 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3246 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3248 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3249 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3250 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3251 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3252 build errors in sieve.c.
3254 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3255 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3256 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3258 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3260 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3262 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3264 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3270 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3272 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3273 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3274 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3275 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3276 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3277 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3278 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3279 for iplsearch lookups.
3281 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3282 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3283 previously such lookups could never work.
3285 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3286 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3287 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3289 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3292 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3293 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3294 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3295 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3296 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3297 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3299 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3300 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3302 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3303 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3304 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3305 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3306 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3307 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3309 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3312 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3314 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3315 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3318 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3319 by clients under certain conditions.
3321 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3322 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3324 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3326 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3327 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3329 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3331 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3333 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3335 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3336 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3338 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3340 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3341 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3343 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3345 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3347 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3348 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3349 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3350 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3352 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3353 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3354 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3356 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3357 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3359 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3361 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3363 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3365 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3366 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3367 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3373 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3374 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3377 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3378 issue a MAIL command.
3380 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3382 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3384 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3385 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3386 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3387 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3388 item. This has been fixed.
3390 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3391 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3393 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3394 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3396 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3397 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3398 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3400 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3402 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3403 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3404 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3405 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3406 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3408 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3409 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3410 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3412 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3413 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3414 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3415 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3417 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3419 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3421 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3422 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3423 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3424 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3425 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3427 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3429 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3430 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3431 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3434 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3436 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3438 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3440 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3442 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3444 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3445 no_callout_flush is set.
3447 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3448 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3449 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3452 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3454 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3455 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3456 other ACL rejections are.
3458 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3459 with slight modification.
3461 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3462 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3464 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3465 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3468 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3469 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3471 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3473 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3474 expansion side effects.
3476 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3477 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3478 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3481 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3482 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3483 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3485 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3486 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3487 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3488 were accidentally chopped off.
3490 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3491 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3492 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3493 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3494 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3495 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3496 pipelining has not been advertised.
3498 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3500 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3501 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3502 This has been fixed.
3504 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3505 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3506 reported on Solaris.
3508 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3509 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3510 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3511 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3512 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3513 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3514 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3516 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3519 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3521 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3523 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3524 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3525 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3526 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3527 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3528 criteria to be more general.
3530 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3531 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3532 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3533 host_all_ignored option.
3535 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3536 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3537 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3538 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3539 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3540 is what is supposed to happen).
3542 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3543 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3544 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3545 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3546 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3549 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3550 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3551 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3552 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3553 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3554 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3557 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3559 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3560 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3562 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3563 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3565 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3567 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3569 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3570 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3571 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3572 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3573 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3574 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3575 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3576 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3577 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3578 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3579 least in a lot of common cases.
3581 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3582 advertised in response to EHLO.
3588 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3589 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3591 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3592 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3594 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3595 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3596 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3598 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3599 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3600 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3601 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3602 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3608 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3609 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3612 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3613 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3614 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3616 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3617 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3618 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3619 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3620 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3621 rather than extend the field.
3627 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3628 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3629 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3630 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3633 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3634 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3635 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3637 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3638 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3639 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3641 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3642 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3643 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3646 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3647 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3648 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3649 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3650 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3651 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3652 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3653 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3654 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3655 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3656 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3658 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3661 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3662 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3663 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3664 ignores EPIPE as well.
3666 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3667 (quoted-printable decoding).
3669 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3670 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3672 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3674 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3676 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3678 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3679 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3681 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3684 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3685 miscellaneous code fixes
3687 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3690 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3691 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3692 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3693 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3694 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3695 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3696 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3697 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3699 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3700 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3701 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3702 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3704 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3705 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3706 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3707 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3708 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3709 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3710 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3711 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3712 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3714 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3717 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3718 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3719 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3720 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3721 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3722 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3723 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3724 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3726 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3727 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3730 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3731 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3732 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3733 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3734 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3735 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3736 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3737 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3738 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3739 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3740 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3741 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3742 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3744 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3745 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3746 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3747 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3748 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3749 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3750 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3752 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3753 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3754 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3755 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3756 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3757 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3758 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3759 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3760 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3761 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3763 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3764 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3765 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3766 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3767 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3769 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3770 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3771 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3772 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3773 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3774 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3775 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3777 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3778 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3779 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3780 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3781 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3782 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3785 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3786 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3787 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3790 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3791 if any retry times were supplied.
3793 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3794 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3795 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3797 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3799 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3801 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3802 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3803 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3804 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3805 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3806 before) are ignored.
3808 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3809 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3811 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3812 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3813 committing the later change.]
3815 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3816 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3817 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3818 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3819 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3820 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3821 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3822 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3823 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3825 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3826 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3827 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3828 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3829 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3830 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3831 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3832 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3833 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3835 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3836 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3837 hammering the server.
3839 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3840 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3842 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3844 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3845 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3846 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3848 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3849 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3850 one case where this was not true.
3852 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3853 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3854 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3855 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3858 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3859 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3860 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3861 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3862 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3863 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3864 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3865 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3866 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3869 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3870 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3871 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3872 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3874 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3875 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3877 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3878 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3879 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3881 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3883 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3885 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3887 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3888 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3889 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3890 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3892 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3893 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3895 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3896 be meaningful with "accept".
3898 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3899 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3901 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3902 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3903 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3905 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3906 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3907 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3908 there is data to show.
3909 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3911 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3912 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3913 as well as the number of messages.
3915 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3916 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3917 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3919 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3920 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3921 have a flag are now skipped.
3923 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3924 Added the -emptyok flag.
3926 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3927 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3929 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3930 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3931 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3933 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3936 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3937 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3939 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3941 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3942 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3944 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3946 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3947 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3948 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3949 contravention of the specifications.
3951 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3952 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3953 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3955 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3956 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3957 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3959 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3961 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3962 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3963 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3964 some point in the past.
3966 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3967 transport during callout processing was broken.
3969 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3970 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3972 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3973 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3975 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3976 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3978 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3984 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3985 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3987 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3988 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3989 there is data to show.
3990 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3992 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3993 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3995 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3996 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3998 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3999 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4001 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4002 submissions from trusted users.
4004 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4005 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4007 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4008 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4009 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4010 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4011 there is now a framework to start from.
4013 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4014 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4015 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4017 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4019 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4021 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4023 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4024 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4025 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4027 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4030 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4031 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4032 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4034 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4035 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4036 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4039 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4040 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4041 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4042 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4043 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4045 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4046 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4048 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4050 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4051 operations in malware.c.
4053 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4056 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4057 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4058 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4061 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4062 statements to "add_header".
4064 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4065 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4067 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4068 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4071 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4075 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4076 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4077 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4080 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4081 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4083 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4084 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4086 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4087 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4088 any possible encoding problems.
4090 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4091 but not after initializing Perl.
4093 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4094 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4095 apparently, which is not desirable.
4097 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4100 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4103 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4105 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4106 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4107 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4108 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4110 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4111 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4112 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4114 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4115 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4116 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4119 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4120 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4121 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4122 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4123 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4129 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4130 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4132 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4135 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4136 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4137 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4138 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4139 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4140 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4141 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4142 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4145 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4147 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4148 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4149 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4151 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4152 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4153 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4156 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4157 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4159 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4160 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4161 option (which defaults to 0600).
4163 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4165 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4166 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4167 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4168 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4169 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4170 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4171 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4173 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4179 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4180 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4181 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4182 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4183 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4184 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4187 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4188 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4190 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4192 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4193 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4194 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4195 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4196 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4199 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4200 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4202 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4203 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4204 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4205 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4206 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4208 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4209 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4210 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4211 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4213 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4214 be the same on different OS.
4216 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4219 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4220 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4222 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4225 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4226 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4227 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4228 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4229 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4230 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4233 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4234 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4235 when Exim was called.
4237 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4238 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4240 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4241 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4242 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4243 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4245 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4246 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4247 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4248 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4251 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4252 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4253 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4255 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4256 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4257 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4259 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4262 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4263 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4264 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4265 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4266 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4267 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4268 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4269 values from the SRV records were lost.
4271 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4272 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4273 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4275 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4276 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4277 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4279 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4280 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4281 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4282 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4283 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4284 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4285 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4286 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4287 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4288 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4290 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4291 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4292 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4294 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4295 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4297 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4298 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4299 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4300 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4303 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4304 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4305 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4307 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4308 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4309 PH/23 above applies.
4311 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4312 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4313 (for which there is an explicit test).
4315 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4317 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4318 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4319 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4320 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4321 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4323 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4324 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4325 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4326 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4328 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4329 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4330 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4332 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4334 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4336 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4337 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4338 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4340 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4341 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4342 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4343 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4344 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4346 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4347 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4348 the message gets confusing).
4350 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4351 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4352 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4353 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4355 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4356 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4357 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4358 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4361 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4362 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4363 the different processes.
4365 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4367 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4369 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4370 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4372 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4373 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4375 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4376 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4377 messages matching specified criteria.
4379 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4381 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4382 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4384 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4385 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4386 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4387 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4388 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4389 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4390 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4391 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4392 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4393 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4395 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4396 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4397 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4399 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4401 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4402 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4403 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4404 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4405 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4406 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4407 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4410 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4411 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4413 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4415 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4417 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4419 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4420 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4421 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4422 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4423 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4424 size of the count of files.
4426 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4428 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4431 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4432 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4433 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4434 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4436 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4437 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4438 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4440 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4441 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4442 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4443 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4444 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4446 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4447 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4449 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4450 will now be deprecated.
4452 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4454 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4455 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4456 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4458 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4459 with very large, slow to parse queues
4461 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4463 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4465 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4466 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4467 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4470 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4471 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4472 Sieve code now uses this.
4474 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4475 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4477 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4478 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4480 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4482 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4483 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4484 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4485 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4486 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4488 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4489 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4490 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4491 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4493 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4495 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4497 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4498 is preferred over IPv4.
4500 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4501 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4502 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4503 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4504 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4505 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4506 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4508 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4509 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4510 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4512 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4514 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4515 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4516 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4517 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4518 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4519 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4520 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4521 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4522 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4523 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4524 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4526 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4527 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4528 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4534 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4536 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4537 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4539 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4540 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4541 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4543 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4545 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4548 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4551 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4552 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4553 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4556 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4557 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4559 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4560 inside the third argument.
4562 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4563 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4566 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4567 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4569 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4570 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4572 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4574 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4575 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4578 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4580 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4581 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4582 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4583 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4584 identical. For example:
4586 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4588 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4589 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4590 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4592 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4593 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4594 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4595 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4597 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4598 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4599 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4602 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4604 o fixes some comments
4605 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4606 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4607 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4608 and documents the missing references header update
4612 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4613 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4616 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4617 Electronic Mail") by including:
4619 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4621 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4622 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4623 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4624 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4625 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4627 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4629 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4631 The auto-replied keyword:
4633 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4634 message by an automatic process,
4636 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4638 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4639 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4641 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4642 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4645 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4646 to the default Received: header definition.
4648 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4650 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4651 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4652 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4654 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4655 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4656 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4658 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4659 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4660 and treats the condition as false.
4662 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4664 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4665 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4666 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4667 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4668 not changing the active code.
4670 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4671 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4673 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4674 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4676 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4679 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4680 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4681 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4682 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4683 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4684 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4685 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4686 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4687 the text comparison.
4689 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4690 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4691 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4692 The same fix has been applied.
4698 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4699 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4702 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4703 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4705 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4707 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4708 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4709 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4710 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4711 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4713 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4714 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4715 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4716 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4719 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4727 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4728 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4730 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4732 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4734 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4735 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4736 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4738 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4739 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4740 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4742 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4743 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4746 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4747 ${stat: expansion item.
4749 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4750 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4752 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4753 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4756 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4758 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4761 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4762 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4764 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4766 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4767 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4768 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4769 the end of the subprocess.
4771 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4772 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4773 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4774 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4775 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4777 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4779 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4781 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4782 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4784 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4786 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4788 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4789 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4792 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4794 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4795 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4796 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4798 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4799 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4801 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4802 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4804 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4805 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4807 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4808 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4810 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4811 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4812 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4813 contributed by a Radius user.
4815 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4816 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4818 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4819 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4821 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4824 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4825 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4828 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4829 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4830 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4831 header lines when this was not necessary.
4833 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4835 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4836 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4837 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4840 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4843 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4844 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4845 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4846 return code was incorrect.
4848 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4850 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4852 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4854 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4856 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4857 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4858 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4859 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4860 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4863 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4865 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4866 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4867 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4868 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4869 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4870 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4871 which is clearly wrong.
4873 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4875 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4876 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4877 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4880 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4881 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4883 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4885 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4886 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4888 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4889 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4891 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4892 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4894 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4895 recipients, not senders.
4897 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4898 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4900 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4902 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4904 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4905 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4906 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4907 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4909 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4911 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4912 clock is set back in time.
4914 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4915 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4917 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4918 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4920 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4921 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4924 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4925 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4928 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4931 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4933 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4934 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4935 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4937 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4938 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4939 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4940 helo verification defer as a failure.
4942 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4943 actual error message.
4949 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4951 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4952 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4953 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4954 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4956 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4958 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4959 can still be requested.
4961 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4962 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4963 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4964 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4966 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4967 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4968 circumstances, but probably never did.
4970 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4971 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4972 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4975 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4977 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4978 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4980 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4982 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4984 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4985 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4986 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4987 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4988 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4989 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4991 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4992 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4993 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4994 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4995 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4996 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4998 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4999 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5001 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5002 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5004 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5005 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5007 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5009 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5011 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5013 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5015 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5017 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5019 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5021 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5022 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5023 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5025 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5026 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5027 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5028 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5030 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5031 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5032 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5034 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5035 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5036 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5037 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5039 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5040 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5043 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5044 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5045 should work with maildirs and everything.
5047 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5048 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5050 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5053 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5054 function for BDB 4.3.
5056 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5058 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5059 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5062 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5063 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5064 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5065 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5066 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5067 formatting function string_vformat().
5069 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5070 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5071 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5072 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5073 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5074 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5075 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5076 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5078 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5079 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5082 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5083 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5085 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5086 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5087 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5088 test. It is now used for both.
5090 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5091 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5092 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5093 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5094 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5095 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5097 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5098 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5099 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5102 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5103 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5104 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5106 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5107 experimental DomainKeys support:
5109 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5110 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5111 the control was given.
5113 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5115 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5117 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5119 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5120 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5121 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5124 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5125 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5126 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5127 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5128 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5129 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5132 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5133 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5134 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5135 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5136 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5137 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5139 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5140 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5141 do -d+all out of habit.
5143 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5144 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5147 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5148 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5149 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5150 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5151 record types that Exim uses.
5153 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5154 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5155 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5156 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5157 non-existent file that was broken.
5159 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5160 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5162 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5163 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5164 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5166 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5168 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5169 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5170 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5171 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5172 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5175 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5176 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5177 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5178 at a slight CPU cost.
5180 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5181 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5183 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5186 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5188 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5189 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5195 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5196 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5198 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5200 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5202 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5203 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5205 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5206 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5207 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5208 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5209 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5210 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5213 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5214 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5215 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5216 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5219 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5220 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5221 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5222 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5223 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5224 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5225 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5228 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5229 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5231 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5232 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5233 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5234 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5235 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5236 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5238 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5239 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5240 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5241 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5243 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5246 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5247 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5249 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5250 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5251 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5252 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5255 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5257 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5258 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5260 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5261 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5262 to what was transported.)
5264 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5266 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5267 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5268 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5269 spamd_address settings.
5271 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5272 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5273 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5274 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5275 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5277 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5279 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5280 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5281 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5282 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5283 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5285 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5286 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5288 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5289 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5290 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5291 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5292 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5293 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5294 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5297 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5298 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5299 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5300 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5301 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5302 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5303 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5306 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5308 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5309 driver and ACL definitions.
5311 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5312 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5314 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5315 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5316 understands it better than I do:
5318 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5319 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5321 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5322 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5323 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5324 => three warnings about OTP not working
5325 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5327 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5328 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5329 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5330 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5332 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5333 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5335 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5336 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5337 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5339 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5340 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5343 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5344 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5347 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5348 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5349 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5351 warn !verify = sender
5352 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5354 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5355 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5357 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5359 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5360 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5362 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5363 nomenclature these days.)
5365 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5366 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5368 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5369 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5370 . First host does not offer TLS;
5371 . First host accepts first address;
5372 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5373 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5374 . Second host accepts second address.
5375 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5376 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5379 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5380 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5381 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5382 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5383 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5385 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5386 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5388 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5389 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5391 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5392 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5393 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5395 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5396 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5399 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5401 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5402 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5403 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5404 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5405 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5406 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5407 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5409 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5410 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5411 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5412 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5413 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5415 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5416 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5419 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5420 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5421 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5422 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5423 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5424 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5426 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5428 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5429 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5430 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5431 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5432 printable escape sequences.
5434 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5435 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5438 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5439 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5442 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5443 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5444 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5445 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5446 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5448 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5449 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5450 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5452 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5454 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5455 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5458 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5459 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5460 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5461 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5462 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5463 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5464 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5465 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5466 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5469 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5470 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5471 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5472 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5476 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5477 ----------------------------------------
5479 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5480 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5481 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5482 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5483 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5484 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5487 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5488 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5489 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5490 historical information.
5496 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5498 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5499 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5501 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5502 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5505 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5506 filter fails to execute.
5508 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5509 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5510 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5511 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5512 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5514 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5516 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5517 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5518 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5519 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5521 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5522 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5523 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5524 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5525 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5527 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5529 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5531 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5532 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5533 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5534 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5536 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5537 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5538 sender verification.
5540 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5541 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5543 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5545 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5548 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5549 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5551 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5552 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5554 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5555 information about exactly what failed.
5557 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5559 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5560 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5561 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5563 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5564 It is now set to "smtps".
5566 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5567 ignore_target_hosts.
5569 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5570 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5571 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5572 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5575 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5576 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5577 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5579 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5580 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5581 wake it up if nothing else does.
5583 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5584 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5585 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5588 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5589 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5591 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5593 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5594 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5595 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5596 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5597 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5598 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5599 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5600 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5602 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5603 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5604 than one IP address.
5606 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5607 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5608 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5609 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5611 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5612 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5613 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5614 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5615 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5618 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5619 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5620 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5621 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5623 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5624 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5627 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5628 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5629 $sender_host_address.
5631 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5632 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5633 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5634 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5635 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5638 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5640 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5641 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5643 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5644 just the host names, not the priorities.
5646 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5647 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5648 controlled by a keyword.
5650 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5651 multiple records are returned.
5653 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5654 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5657 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5659 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5660 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5662 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5663 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5664 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5666 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5668 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5670 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5672 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5673 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5674 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5675 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5676 because the tests only now provoked it.
5678 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5679 (this can affect the format of dates).
5681 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5682 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5683 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5684 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5686 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5688 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5689 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5690 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5691 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5693 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5694 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5695 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5697 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5700 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5701 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5702 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5703 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5704 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5705 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5708 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5709 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5710 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5713 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5714 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5715 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5717 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5718 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5719 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5720 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5721 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5722 so I produce this patch..."
5724 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5725 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5728 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5729 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5730 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5731 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5734 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5736 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5737 long debug lines gets shown.
5739 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5740 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5742 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5744 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5745 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5746 of $primary_hostname.
5748 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5749 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5750 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5751 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5752 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5753 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5754 by change 4.50/55 above.
5756 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5757 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5758 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5759 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5760 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5761 running as the user.
5764 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5765 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5766 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5769 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5770 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5772 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5773 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5774 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5775 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5776 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5778 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5779 This has been fixed.
5781 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5782 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5783 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5784 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5787 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5789 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5790 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5791 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5792 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5794 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5795 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5797 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5798 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5799 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5801 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5802 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5803 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5806 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5807 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5808 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5810 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5811 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5812 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5813 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5815 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5816 during host lookups.
5818 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5819 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5821 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5823 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5824 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5825 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5826 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5827 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5830 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5831 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5833 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5834 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5835 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5837 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5839 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5840 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5841 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5842 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5843 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5844 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5847 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5848 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5849 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5850 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5851 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5853 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5856 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5858 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5859 "vacation" handling.
5861 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5862 OS variants using glibc.
5864 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5867 ----------------------------------------------------
5868 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5869 ----------------------------------------------------
5875 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5876 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5879 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5880 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5883 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5884 filter fails to execute.
5886 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5887 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5888 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5889 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5890 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5892 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5893 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5894 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5895 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5897 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5898 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5899 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5900 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5901 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5903 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5905 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5906 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5907 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5908 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5910 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5911 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5912 sender verification.
5914 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5915 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5917 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5918 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5920 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5921 ignore_target_hosts.
5923 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5924 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5925 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5926 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5929 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5930 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5931 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5933 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5934 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5935 wake it up if nothing else does.
5937 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5938 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5939 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5942 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5943 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5945 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5947 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5948 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5951 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5952 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5955 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5956 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5957 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5958 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5959 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5962 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5963 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5966 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5967 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5968 $sender_host_address.
5970 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5972 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5973 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5974 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5976 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5979 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5980 (this can affect the format of dates).
5982 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5983 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5984 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5985 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5987 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5988 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5989 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5991 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5992 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5993 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5994 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5996 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5997 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5998 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6000 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6003 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6004 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6005 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6006 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6007 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6008 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6011 33. 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 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6018 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6019 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6020 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6021 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6022 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6023 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6025 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6026 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6027 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6028 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6029 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6030 running as the user.
6033 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6034 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6035 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6038 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6039 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6040 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6041 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6042 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6044 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6045 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6046 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6047 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6050 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6051 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6052 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6053 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6054 because the tests only now provoked it.
6060 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6061 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6062 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6063 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6064 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6065 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6066 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6068 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6069 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6072 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6074 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6076 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6077 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6080 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6081 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6082 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6083 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6084 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6086 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6087 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6089 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6091 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6093 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6096 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6097 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6099 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6100 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6101 affecting debugging statements).
6103 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6105 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6106 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6107 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6108 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6109 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6110 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6111 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6112 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6113 after the received time, and all would be well.
6115 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6116 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6117 condition in an expansion string.
6119 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6121 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6122 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6123 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6124 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6125 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6126 job under whatever limits there are.
6128 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6130 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6133 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6134 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6135 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6136 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6139 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6140 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6141 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6142 binary data in such strings.
6144 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6146 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6147 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6148 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6149 failure, which is pointless.
6151 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6153 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6155 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6156 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6157 Sender: header lines.
6159 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6160 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6161 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6163 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6164 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6165 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6166 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6167 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6170 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6171 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6172 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6173 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6174 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6176 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6177 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6178 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6181 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6182 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6184 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6185 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6187 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6189 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6191 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6193 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6196 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6198 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6200 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6201 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6202 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6203 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6205 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6206 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6212 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6213 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6214 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6216 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6217 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6218 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6219 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6220 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6221 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6223 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6224 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6225 verification failure".
6227 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6228 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6229 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6230 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6232 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6233 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6234 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6235 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6236 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6237 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6238 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6239 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6240 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6241 treated as a timeout.
6243 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6244 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6245 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6246 not set for Exim filters).
6248 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6249 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6250 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6252 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6254 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6255 try to make them clearer.
6257 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6258 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6260 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6262 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6264 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6265 only the Cygwin environment.
6267 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6268 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6269 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6270 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6271 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6273 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6274 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6275 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6276 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6277 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6278 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6279 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6281 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6282 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6284 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6286 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6287 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6288 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6290 To: susanne@some.where
6292 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6293 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6294 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6295 of addresses in From: header lines).
6297 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6298 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6299 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6301 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6302 treated as non-personal.
6304 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6305 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6307 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6309 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6311 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6312 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6313 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6315 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6316 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6318 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6319 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6320 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6321 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6322 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6323 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6325 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6326 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6327 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6328 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6329 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6330 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6331 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6332 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6334 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6336 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6337 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6339 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6340 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6341 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6343 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6344 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6346 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6347 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6348 rather than long int.
6350 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6352 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6358 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6359 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6360 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6361 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6362 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6363 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6369 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6370 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6372 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6373 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6374 socklen_t is defined.
6376 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6379 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6382 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6383 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6384 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6385 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6386 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6388 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6389 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6390 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6391 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6393 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6394 of flapping under certain conditions.
6396 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6397 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6398 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6400 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6402 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6404 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6405 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6406 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6407 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6409 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6410 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6411 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6412 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6413 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6414 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6415 preserved with the message after it was received.
6417 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6418 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6419 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6420 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6421 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6422 test suite worked just fine.
6424 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6425 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6426 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6428 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6429 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6432 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6433 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6434 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6435 does not fully solve it.
6437 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6438 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6439 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6440 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6441 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6443 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6444 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6445 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6447 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6448 string, for example:
6450 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6452 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6453 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6454 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6455 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6456 the routers could not see them.
6458 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6459 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6461 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6462 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6465 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6466 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6467 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6468 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6469 that needed quoting.
6471 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6472 was not being matched caselessly.
6474 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6477 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6478 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6479 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6480 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6481 when use_sender is false.
6483 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6485 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6487 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6489 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6490 the configuration file.
6492 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6493 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6495 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6497 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6498 bytes in the message body.
6500 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6501 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6504 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6506 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6508 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6509 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6510 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6511 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6518 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6519 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6521 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6522 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6523 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6524 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6525 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6527 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6528 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6530 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6531 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6532 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6534 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6535 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6536 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6538 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6541 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6542 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6543 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6544 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6545 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6546 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6547 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6553 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6554 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6555 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6556 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6557 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6558 default (and expected) setting.
6560 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6561 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6562 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6563 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6565 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6566 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6568 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6571 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6572 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6573 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6574 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6575 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6576 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6578 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6579 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6580 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6582 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6583 part (NOT match_host).
6585 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6587 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6588 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6589 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6590 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6591 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6592 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6593 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6594 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6595 the same named file.
6597 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6598 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6601 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6602 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6603 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6604 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6607 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6608 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6609 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6611 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6613 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6615 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6617 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6618 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6620 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6621 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6622 before starting the TLS session.
6624 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6626 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6627 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6629 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6630 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6631 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6632 colon in the middle).
6638 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6639 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6640 multiple configurations are in use.
6642 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6643 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6644 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6645 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6646 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6647 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6649 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6650 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6652 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6653 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6654 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6656 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6657 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6660 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6661 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6663 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6665 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6666 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6668 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6676 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6677 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6678 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6679 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6680 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6682 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6685 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6686 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6687 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6688 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6689 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6690 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6692 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6693 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6694 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6695 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6696 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6697 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6698 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6701 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6702 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6703 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6704 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6705 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6707 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6709 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6710 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6711 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6713 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6715 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6716 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6717 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6720 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6721 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6723 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6724 Three changes have been made:
6726 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6727 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6728 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6729 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6730 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6732 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6735 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6736 the modified behaviour.
6742 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6745 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6746 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6748 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6749 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6750 try to track down a specific problem.
6752 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6753 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6754 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6756 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6759 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6760 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6761 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6762 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6763 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6764 some earlier ones do not.
6766 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6768 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6769 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6770 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6771 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6772 address literals are enabled, of course).
6774 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6776 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6777 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6778 by a command such as
6782 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6784 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6786 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6787 remained set. It is now erased.
6789 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6790 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6792 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6793 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6794 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6795 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6796 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6797 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6798 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6799 appropriate error code.
6801 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6802 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6803 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6804 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6805 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6806 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6808 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6809 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6810 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6812 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6813 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6814 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6815 terminate the header.
6817 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6818 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6819 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6821 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6822 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6823 (4.30/29). In particular:
6825 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6828 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6829 to write a maildirsize file.
6831 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6832 the transport, the new value overrides.
6834 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6837 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6838 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6839 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6842 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6843 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6844 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6847 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6848 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6849 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6851 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6852 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6855 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6856 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6857 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6859 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6861 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6863 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6865 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6866 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6869 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6870 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6871 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6872 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6873 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6874 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6875 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6878 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6879 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6880 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6881 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6882 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6885 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6886 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6887 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6888 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6889 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6890 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6891 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6892 cached value only when the same options are set.
6894 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6896 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6897 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6898 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6899 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6900 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6902 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6903 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6904 it is clearly obsolete.
6906 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6909 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6910 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6911 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6914 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6915 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6916 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6917 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6918 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6920 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6921 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6922 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6923 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6925 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6927 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6929 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6930 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6933 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6934 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6935 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6936 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6937 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6938 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6941 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6942 with the -f command-line option.
6944 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6945 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6946 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6947 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6948 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6949 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6951 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6952 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6955 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6956 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6957 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6958 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6959 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6960 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6961 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6962 buffer is too small.
6964 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6965 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6967 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6968 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6969 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6970 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6971 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6972 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6973 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6974 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6975 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6977 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6978 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6979 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6981 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6982 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6985 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6986 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6987 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6988 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6989 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6991 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6992 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6993 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6994 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6997 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6999 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7001 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7002 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7004 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7005 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7006 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7008 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7009 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7010 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7011 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7012 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7014 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7015 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7016 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7017 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7018 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7019 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7020 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7022 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7023 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7024 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7025 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7026 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7027 the test of how many are available.
7029 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7030 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7031 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7032 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7033 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7034 new message is started.
7036 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7037 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7039 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7040 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7042 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7043 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7044 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7047 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7048 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7049 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7050 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7051 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7052 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7053 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7055 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7056 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7057 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7058 interpreted as octal.
7060 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7063 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7064 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7065 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7066 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7067 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7068 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7070 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7071 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7072 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7073 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7075 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7076 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7077 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7078 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7080 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7081 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7084 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7085 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7087 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7089 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7090 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7091 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7092 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7094 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7095 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7096 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7097 supplied", which is not helpful.
7099 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7100 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7101 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7103 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7104 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7105 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7106 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7107 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7108 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7109 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7110 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7112 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7113 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7114 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7115 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7116 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7118 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7119 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7120 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7121 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7122 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7123 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7125 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7126 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7127 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7129 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7131 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7132 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7133 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7136 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7138 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7139 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7140 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7141 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7142 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7143 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7144 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7145 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7147 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7148 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7149 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7150 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7151 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7153 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7156 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7157 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7158 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7159 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7160 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7161 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7162 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7163 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7164 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7170 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7171 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7172 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7174 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7177 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7178 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7179 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7181 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7182 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7183 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7184 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7185 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7186 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7188 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7189 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7190 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7191 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7192 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7193 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7194 the Exim test suite.
7196 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7197 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7198 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7199 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7201 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7202 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7203 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7204 specify it in this variable.
7206 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7207 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7208 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7209 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7211 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7212 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7213 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7214 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7216 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7217 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7218 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7219 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7220 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7222 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7224 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7227 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7228 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7229 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7230 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7231 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7233 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7234 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7236 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7237 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7238 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7239 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7240 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7242 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7243 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7245 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7246 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7247 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7249 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7250 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7252 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7253 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7255 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7256 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7257 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7259 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7260 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7262 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7263 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7264 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7265 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7267 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7269 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7270 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7271 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7272 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7274 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7276 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7277 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7279 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7281 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7282 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7283 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7284 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7285 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7286 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7288 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7290 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7291 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7294 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7296 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7297 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7299 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7300 550 Sender verify failed
7302 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7303 the final line of the response.
7305 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7306 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7307 all other user lookups.
7309 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7312 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7313 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7314 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7315 result into an int without checking.
7317 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7318 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7319 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7321 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7322 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7323 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7324 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7326 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7329 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7330 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7332 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7333 to the empty sender.
7335 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7336 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7337 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7338 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7339 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7340 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7341 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7344 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7345 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7346 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7347 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7350 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7351 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7353 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7356 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7357 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7359 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7361 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7362 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7365 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7366 as soon as it is encountered.
7368 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7370 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7373 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7374 recognizes a tab character.
7376 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7377 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7378 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7379 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7381 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7383 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7386 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7388 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7390 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7391 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7394 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7395 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7396 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7397 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7398 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7400 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7401 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7403 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7404 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7405 list (.included file names were always shown).
7407 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7408 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7409 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7412 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7413 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7415 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7417 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7419 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7421 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7422 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7423 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7424 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7425 failures to open the logs.
7427 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7428 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7429 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7430 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7431 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7432 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7433 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7439 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7440 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7441 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7444 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7445 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7446 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7448 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7449 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7450 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7452 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7453 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7454 causing some misleading effects.
7456 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7457 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7458 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7460 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7461 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7462 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7463 queue-runner function directly.
7469 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7472 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7473 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7474 was always written to the default place.
7476 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7477 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7478 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7480 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7482 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7484 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7485 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7486 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7488 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7489 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7492 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7493 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7494 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7496 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7497 command line option is disabled.
7499 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7500 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7502 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7504 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7506 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7507 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7509 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7511 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7512 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7513 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7514 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7515 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7516 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7518 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7519 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7522 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7523 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7525 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7526 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7528 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7529 received was valid base64.
7531 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7532 name of the variable that was being set.
7534 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7536 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7537 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7538 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7539 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7540 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7541 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7543 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7545 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7546 nor realm was specified.
7548 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7549 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7550 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7551 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7553 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7554 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7555 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7557 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7558 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7559 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7561 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7562 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7563 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7564 some systems use these upper case variants.
7566 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7567 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7568 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7569 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7571 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7573 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7574 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7576 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7577 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7580 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7582 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7583 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7584 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7585 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7587 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7590 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7591 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7592 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7594 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7595 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7597 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7598 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7599 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7600 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7602 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7603 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7604 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7606 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7608 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7609 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7610 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7611 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7614 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7615 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7616 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7618 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7620 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7621 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7623 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7624 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7626 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7627 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7628 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7629 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7630 when emails are that large.
7637 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7638 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7640 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7641 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7642 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7644 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7645 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7646 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7648 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7649 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7650 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7651 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7652 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7654 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7655 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7656 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7657 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7658 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7661 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7662 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7663 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7664 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7665 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7666 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7667 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7668 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7669 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7670 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7671 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7672 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7673 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7674 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7676 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7677 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7680 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7681 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7682 error should be diagnosed.
7684 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7685 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7686 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7687 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7688 appeared instead of "NULL".
7690 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7691 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7692 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7693 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7694 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7695 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7698 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7699 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7700 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7706 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7707 or receiver verification errors.
7709 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7712 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7713 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7714 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7715 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7717 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7718 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7719 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7720 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7721 shouldn't happen again.
7723 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7724 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7725 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7727 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7728 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7730 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7732 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7733 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7735 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7736 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7739 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7740 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7741 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7743 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7744 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7745 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7746 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7748 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7749 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7750 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7751 to define what should happen).
7753 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7754 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7755 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7757 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7759 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7761 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7762 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7764 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7765 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7766 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7767 structure in all cases.
7769 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7770 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7771 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7772 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7774 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7775 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7778 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7779 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7781 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7782 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7784 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7785 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7786 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7788 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7789 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7790 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7792 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7793 the book and for uniformity.
7795 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7797 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7798 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7799 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7800 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7801 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7802 non-existent command as the problem.
7804 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7805 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7806 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7808 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7810 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7811 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7812 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7814 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7815 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7816 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7817 timestamps using strftime().
7819 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7820 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7822 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7823 transport-time rewrites.
7825 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7826 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7827 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7828 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7830 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7831 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7833 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7834 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7835 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7836 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7839 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7840 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7841 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7842 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7843 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7844 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7845 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7847 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7848 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7849 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7850 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7851 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7853 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7854 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7855 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7856 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7857 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7858 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7859 remaining text gets split now.
7861 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7862 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7863 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7864 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7866 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7867 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7868 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7869 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7872 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7873 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7874 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7875 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7876 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7877 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7878 passed through if needed.
7880 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7881 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7882 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7883 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7884 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7885 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7887 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7888 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7889 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7890 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7891 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7893 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7894 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7895 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7896 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7897 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7899 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7900 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7903 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7904 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7905 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7906 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7907 mayhem of various kinds.
7909 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7910 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7911 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7912 the right test for positive values.
7914 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7915 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7916 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7917 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7918 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7919 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7920 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7921 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7922 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7923 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7926 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7929 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7930 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7933 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7934 the existing equality matching.
7936 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7937 dealing with inode numbers.
7939 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7940 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7941 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7943 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7944 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7945 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7946 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7949 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7950 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7951 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7952 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7953 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7954 relay addresses has also been removed.
7956 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7958 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7959 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7960 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7962 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7963 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7964 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7965 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7966 processing applies to CR:
7968 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7969 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7971 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7972 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7973 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7974 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7976 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7977 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7978 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7980 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7981 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7982 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7983 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7984 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7985 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7988 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7991 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7992 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7993 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7994 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7997 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7999 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8001 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8003 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8004 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8005 not considered personal.
8007 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8009 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8011 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8013 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8014 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8015 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8016 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8017 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8018 header lines, and spool format errors.
8020 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8021 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8022 for more flexibility.
8024 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8025 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8026 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8028 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8031 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8032 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8033 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8034 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8035 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8036 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8037 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8038 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8039 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8041 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8042 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8043 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8044 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8045 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8046 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8047 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8049 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8050 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8051 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8053 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8054 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8055 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8056 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8057 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8058 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8059 instead of killing the process with assert().
8061 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8062 than Unicode encoding.
8064 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8065 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8066 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8067 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8069 77. Added process_log_path.
8071 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8072 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8074 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8075 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8077 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8078 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8079 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8081 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8082 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8083 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8084 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8085 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8088 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8089 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8092 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8093 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8094 they will be used during message reception.
8100 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.