1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
8 JH/01 The hosts_connection_nolog main option now also controls "no MAIL in
9 SMTP connection" log lines.
11 JH/02 Option default value updates:
12 - queue_fast_ramp (main) true (was false)
13 - remote_max_parallel (main) 4 (was 2)
15 JH/03 Cache static regex pattern compilations, for use by ACLs.
17 JH/04 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
18 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
19 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
21 JH/05 Follow symlinks for placing a watch on TLS creds files. This means
22 (under Linux) we watch the dir containing the final file; previously
23 it would be the dir with the first symlink. We still do not monitor
26 JH/06 Check for bad chars in rDNS for sender_host_name. The OpenBSD (at least)
27 dn_expand() is happy to pass them through.
29 JH/07 OpenSSL Fix auto-reload of changed server OCSP proof. Previously, if
30 the file with the proof had an unchanged name, the new proof(s) were
31 loaded on top of the old ones (and nover used; the old ones were stapled).
33 JH/08 Bug 2915: Fix use-after-free for $regex<n> variables. Previously when
34 more than one message arrived in a single connection a reference from
35 the earlier message could be re-used. Often a sigsegv resulted.
36 These variables were introduced in Exim 4.87.
37 Debug help from Graeme Fowler.
39 JH/09 Fix ${filter } for conditions that modify $value. Previously the
40 modified version would be used in construction the result, and a memory
43 JH/10 GnuTLS: fix for (IOT?) clients offering no TLS extensions at all.
44 Find and fix by Jasen Betts.
46 JH/11 OpenSSL: fix for ancient clients needing TLS support for versions earlier
47 than TLSv1,2, Previously, more-recent versions of OpenSSL were permitting
48 the systemwide configuration to override the Exim config.
50 HS/01 Bug 2728: Introduce EDITME option "DMARC_API" to work around incompatible
51 API changes in libopendmarc.
53 JH/12 Bug 2930: Fix daemon startup. When started from any process apart from
54 pid 1, in the normal "background daemon" mode, having to drop process-
55 group leadership also lost track of needing to create listener sockets.
57 JH/13 Bug 2929: Fix using $recipients after ${run...}. A change made for 4.96
58 resulted in the variable appearing empty. Find and fix by Ruben Jenster.
60 JH/14 Bug 2933: Fix regex substring match variables for null matches. Since 4.96
61 a capture group which obtained no text (eg. "(abc)*" matching zero
62 occurrences) could cause a segfault if the corresponding $<n> was
65 JH/15 Fix argument parsing for ${run } expansion. Previously, when an argument
66 included a close-brace character (eg. it itself used an expansion) an
69 JH/16 Move running the smtp connect ACL to before, for TLS-on-connect ports,
70 starting TLS. Previously it was after, meaning that attackers on such
71 ports had to be screened using the host_reject_connection main config
72 option. The new sequence aligns better with the STARTTLS behaviour, and
73 permits defences against crypto-processing load attacks, even though it
74 is strictly an incompatible change.
75 Also, avoid sending any SMTP fail response for either the connect ACL
76 or host_reject_connection, for TLS-on-connect ports.
78 JH/17 Permit the ACL "encrypted" condition to be used in a HELO/EHLO ACL,
79 Previously this was not permitted, but it makes reasonable sense.
80 While there, restore a restriction on using it from a connect ACL; given
81 the change JH/16 it could only return false (and before 4.91 was not
84 JH/18 Fix a fencepost error in logging. Previously (since 4.92) when a log line
85 was exactly sized compared to the log buffer, a crash occurred with the
86 misleading message "bad memory reference; pool not found".
87 Found and traced by Jasen Betts.
89 JH/19 Bug 2911: Fix a recursion in DNS lookups. Previously, if the main option
90 dns_again_means_nonexist included an element causing a DNS lookup which
91 iteslf returned DNS_AGAIN, unbounded recursion occurred. Possible results
92 included (though probably not limited to) a process crash from stack
93 memory limit, or from excessive open files. Replace this with a paniclog
94 whine (as this is likely a configuration error), and returning
97 JH/20 Bug 2954: (OpenSSL) Fix setting of explicit EC curve/group. Previously
98 this always failed, probably leading to the usual downgrade to in-clear
101 JH/21 Fix TLSA lookups. Previously dns_again_means_nonexist would affect
102 SERVFAIL results, which breaks the downgrade resistance of DANE. Change
103 to not checking that list for these lookups.
105 JH/22 Bug 2434: Add connection-elapsed "D=" element to more connection
108 JH/23 Fix crash in string expansions. Previously, if an empty variable was
109 immediately followed by an expansion operator, a null-indirection read
110 was done, killing the process.
112 JH/24 Bug 2997: When built with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO, bounce messages can
113 include an SMTP response string which is longer than that supported
114 by the delivering transport. Alleviate by wrapping such lines before
121 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique message IDs) from
122 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
123 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
126 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
127 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
129 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
130 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
131 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
132 not be modified by local-scan code.
134 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
135 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
137 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
138 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
141 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
142 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
144 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
145 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
148 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
149 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
150 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
152 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
153 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
154 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
156 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
157 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
158 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
159 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
160 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
161 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
162 Assorted crashes happen.
164 JH/11 Fix use of $sender_host_name in daemon process. When used in certain
165 main-section options or in a connect ACL, the value from the first ever
166 connection was never replaced for subsequent connections. Found by
169 JH/12 Bug 2838: Fix for i32lp64 hard-align platforms. Found for SPARC Linux,
170 though only once PCRE2 was introduced: the memory accounting used under
171 debug offset allocations by an int, giving a hard trap in early startup.
172 Change to using a size_t. Debug and fix by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.
174 JH/13 Bug 2845: Fix handling of tls_require_ciphers for OpenSSL when a value
175 with underbars is given. The write-protection of configuration introduced
176 in 4.95 trapped when normalisation was applied to an option not needing
179 JH/14 Bug 1895: TLS: Deprecate RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
181 JH/15 Fix a resource leak in *BSD. An off-by-one error resulted in the daemon
182 failing to close the certificates directory, every hour or any time it
185 JH/16 Debugging initiated by an ACL control now continues through into routing
186 and transport processes. Previously debugging stopped any time Exim
187 re-execs, or for processing a queued message.
189 JH/17 The "expand" debug selector now gives more detail, specifically on the
190 result of expansion operators and items.
192 JH/18 Bug 2751: Fix include_directory in redirect routers. Previously a
193 bad comparison between the option value and the name of the file to
194 be included was done, and a mismatch was wrongly identified.
195 4.88 to 4.95 are affected.
197 JH/19 Support for Berkeley DB versions 1 and 2 is withdrawn.
199 JH/20 When built with NDBM for hints DB's check for nonexistence of a name
200 supplied as the db file-pair basename. Previously, if a directory
201 path was given, for example via the autoreply "once" option, the DB
202 file.pag and file.dir files would be created in that directory's
205 JH/21 Remove the "allow_insecure_tainted_data" main config option and the
206 "taint" log_selector. These were previously deprecated.
208 JH/22 Fix static address-list lookups to properly return the matched item.
209 Previously only the domain part was returned.
211 JH/23 Bug 2864: FreeBSD: fix transport hang after 4xx/5xx response. Previously
212 the call into OpenSSL to send a TLS Close was being repeated; this
213 resulted in the library waiting for the peer's Close. If that was never
214 sent we waited forever. Fix by tracking send calls.
216 JH/24 The ${run} expansion item now expands its command string elements after
217 splitting. Previously it was before; the new ordering makes handling
218 zero-length arguments simpler. The old ordering can be obtained by
219 appending a new option "preexpand", after a comma, to the "run".
221 JH/25 Taint-check exec arguments for transport-initiated external processes.
222 Previously, tainted values could be used. This affects "pipe", "lmtp" and
223 "queryprogram" transport, transport-filter, and ETRN commands.
224 The ${run} expansion is also affected: in "preexpand" mode no part of
225 the command line may be tainted, in default mode the executable name
228 JH/26 Fix CHUNKING on a continued-transport. Previously the usabliility of
229 the the facility was not passed across execs, and only the first message
230 passed over a connection could use BDAT; any further ones using DATA.
232 JH/27 Support the PIPECONNECT facility in the smtp transport when the helo_data
233 uses $sending_ip_address and an interface is specified.
234 Previously any use of the local address in the EHLO name disabled
235 PIPECONNECT, the common case being to use the rDNS of it.
237 JH/28 OpenSSL: fix transport-required OCSP stapling verification under session
238 resumption. Previously verify failed because no certificate status is
239 passed on the wire for the restarted session. Fix by using the recorded
240 ocsp status of the stored session for the new connection.
242 JH/29 TLS resumption: the key for session lookup in the client now includes
243 more info that a server could potentially use in configuring a TLS
244 session, avoiding oferring mismatching sessions to such a server.
245 Previously only the server IP was used.
247 JH/30 Fix string_copyn() for limit greater than actual string length.
248 Previously the copied amount was the limit, which could result in a
249 overlapping memcpy for newly allocated destination soon after a
250 source string shorter than the limit. Found/investigated by KM.
252 JH/31 Bug 2886: GnuTLS: Do not free the cached creds on transport connection
253 close; it may be needed for a subsequent connection. This caused a
254 SEGV on primary-MX defer. Found/investigated by Gedalya & Andreas.
256 JH/32 Fix CHUNKING for a second message on a connection when the first was
257 rejected. Previously we did not reset the chunking-offered state, and
258 erroneously rejected the BDAT command. Investigation help from
261 JH/33 Fis ${srs_encode ...} to handle an empty sender address, now returning
262 an empty address. Previously the expansion returned an error.
264 HS/01 Bug 2855: Handle a v4mapped sender address given us by a frontending
265 proxy. Previously these were misparsed, leading to paniclog entries.
271 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
272 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
273 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
275 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
276 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
277 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
278 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
280 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
281 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
282 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
283 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
284 so could be handling tainted values.
286 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
287 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
288 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
290 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
291 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
292 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
295 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
296 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
297 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
298 to align better with RFC 6125.
300 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
301 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
302 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
303 by adding a release action in that path.
305 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
306 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
307 dynamically-created buffers.
309 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
310 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
311 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
312 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
314 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
315 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
316 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
317 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
319 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
320 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
321 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
323 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
324 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
325 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
326 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
328 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
329 excluded, not matching the documentation.
331 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
332 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
334 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
335 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
336 this was a coding error.
338 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
339 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
340 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
341 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
342 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
343 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
344 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
346 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
347 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
348 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
349 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
351 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
352 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
353 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
354 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
355 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
357 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
358 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
361 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
362 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
363 domain-parking registrar.
365 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
366 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
367 after removing the newline.
369 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
370 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
371 option set, which was previously used.
373 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
376 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
377 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
378 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
379 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
381 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
382 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
383 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
384 exim.dev.20160529.3).
386 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
387 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
388 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
390 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
391 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
392 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
395 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
396 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
397 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
399 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
400 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
401 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
402 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
405 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
406 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
407 there, handle PRX and TFO.
409 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
410 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
411 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
412 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
413 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
415 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
416 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
417 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
418 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
421 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
422 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
424 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
427 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
428 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
429 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
430 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
431 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
433 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
435 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
436 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
437 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
438 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
439 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
440 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
442 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
443 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
445 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
446 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
447 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
449 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
450 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
453 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
454 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
455 of a new variable: $auth4.
457 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
458 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
459 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
460 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
461 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
463 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
464 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
465 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
466 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
468 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
469 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
470 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
472 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
473 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
474 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
475 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
478 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
479 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
480 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
483 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
484 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
485 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
486 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
488 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
489 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
491 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
492 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
493 looked as if if might be one.
495 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
496 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
497 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
498 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
499 messages can show the proxy information.
501 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
502 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
503 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
504 "queue_time_exclusive".
506 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
507 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
508 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
510 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
511 making it unusable in complex expressions.
513 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
514 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
517 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
519 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
521 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
523 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
524 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
525 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
526 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
528 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
529 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
531 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
532 better. Reported by Qualys.
534 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
535 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
538 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
540 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
543 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
545 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
546 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
547 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
548 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
550 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
551 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
553 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
554 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
555 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
556 mode until after various protocol state checks.
557 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
559 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
561 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
562 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
564 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
567 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
568 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
569 executed child processes (if any).
571 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
574 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
575 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
576 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
577 been reported on other platforms.
579 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
581 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
582 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
583 Not supported on Solaris 10.
585 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
586 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
587 since fakereject was originally introduced.
589 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
590 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
592 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
593 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
594 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
597 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
598 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
599 which only permit IP addresses.
605 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
606 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
607 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
609 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
611 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
612 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
615 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
616 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
617 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
619 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
621 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
623 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
624 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
625 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
627 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
628 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
629 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
631 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
632 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
634 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
635 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
638 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
639 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
640 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
641 should both provide the file and set the option.
642 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
644 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
645 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
647 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
648 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
649 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
650 Authentication-Results: header.
652 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
653 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
654 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
655 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
657 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
658 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
659 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
660 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
661 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
662 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
663 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
665 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
666 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
667 copies while it is still usable.
669 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
670 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
671 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
673 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
674 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
676 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
677 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
678 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
679 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
681 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
682 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
683 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
686 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
687 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
688 - the pipe transport command
689 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
690 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
692 - paths used by single-key lookups
693 Previously this was permitted.
695 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
696 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
697 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
698 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
700 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
701 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
702 support larger malloc requests.
704 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
705 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
706 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
707 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
709 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
710 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
711 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
712 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
715 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
716 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
717 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
718 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
719 data being length-specified.
721 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
722 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
723 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
724 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
726 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
727 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
728 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
729 not being properly tracked.
731 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
732 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
733 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
734 minute could be seen.
736 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
737 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
738 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
740 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
741 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
743 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
744 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
747 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
749 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
750 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
752 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
753 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
754 filesystem as sufficient validation.
756 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
757 argument is supplied.
759 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
760 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
761 access under Exim's current working directory.
763 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
764 Previously no event was raised.
766 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
767 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
768 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
771 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
772 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
773 the size of the signature hash.
775 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
776 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
778 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
779 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
780 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
781 dropped between messages.
783 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
784 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
785 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
786 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
788 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
789 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
790 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
791 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
792 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
793 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
794 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
795 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
796 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
798 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
799 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
800 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
802 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
803 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
810 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
811 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
813 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
814 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
817 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
820 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
822 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
824 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
825 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
827 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
828 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
829 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
830 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
831 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
832 suitably configured).
834 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
835 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
837 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
838 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
841 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
842 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
844 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
845 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
846 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
847 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
850 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
851 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
852 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
854 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
857 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
858 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
860 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
861 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
862 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
863 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
866 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
867 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
868 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
869 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
872 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
873 shared (NFS) environment.
875 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
876 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
879 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
880 on some platforms for bit 31.
882 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
883 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
884 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
885 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
886 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
887 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
888 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
889 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
891 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
893 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
894 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
896 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
897 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
900 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
901 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
904 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
905 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
906 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
909 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
910 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
911 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
913 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
914 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
915 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
916 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
917 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
919 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
922 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
923 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
924 be requested on all coneections.
926 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
927 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
929 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
931 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
932 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
933 one for these; the option was ignored.
935 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
936 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
937 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
938 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
940 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
941 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
942 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
945 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
946 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
947 error ignored was made.
949 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
951 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
952 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
953 values, to catch one form of exploit.
955 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
956 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
957 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
959 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
960 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
963 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
964 them in our smtp response.
966 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
967 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
968 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
969 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
970 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
972 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
973 link count into consideration.
975 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
976 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
978 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
979 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
980 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
983 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
985 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
987 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
989 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
990 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
991 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
992 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
994 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
996 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
997 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
1000 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
1001 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
1002 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
1004 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
1005 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
1006 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
1008 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
1009 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
1010 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
1011 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
1012 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
1013 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
1014 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
1015 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
1017 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
1018 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
1019 resulted in an indefinite loop.
1021 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
1022 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
1023 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
1025 JH/48 Bug 2784: fix shutdown=no in the ${readsocket) expansion item. Previously
1026 an incorrect mode was used for reading the result, resulting in it being
1033 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
1034 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
1036 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
1037 non-signal-safe functions being used.
1039 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
1040 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
1041 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
1043 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
1044 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
1045 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
1047 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
1048 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
1049 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
1050 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
1051 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
1054 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
1055 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
1057 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
1058 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
1059 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
1060 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
1061 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
1062 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
1063 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
1065 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
1066 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
1068 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
1071 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
1072 Previously this would segfault.
1074 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
1077 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
1078 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
1079 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
1080 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
1081 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
1082 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
1084 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
1086 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
1087 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
1088 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
1089 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
1091 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
1093 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
1094 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
1095 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
1096 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
1098 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
1100 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
1102 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
1103 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
1104 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
1106 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
1107 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
1108 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
1110 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
1112 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
1113 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
1114 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
1115 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
1117 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
1118 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
1119 promised '?' replacement.
1121 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
1123 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
1124 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
1125 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
1126 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
1127 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
1129 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
1130 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
1131 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
1133 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
1134 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
1135 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
1137 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
1138 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
1139 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
1141 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
1142 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
1143 hope that is portable enough.
1145 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
1146 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
1147 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
1148 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
1150 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
1151 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
1152 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
1154 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
1155 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
1156 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
1157 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
1159 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
1160 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
1162 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
1163 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
1164 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
1165 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
1167 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
1168 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
1169 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
1171 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
1172 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
1173 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
1174 the previous G, M, k.
1176 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
1177 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
1180 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
1181 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
1182 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
1183 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
1185 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
1186 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
1188 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
1189 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
1190 off past the nul-terimation.
1192 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
1193 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
1194 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
1195 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
1196 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
1198 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
1200 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
1201 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
1202 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
1205 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
1206 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
1208 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
1209 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
1210 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
1212 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
1213 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
1214 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
1216 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
1217 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1223 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1224 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1225 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1226 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1227 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1228 be defined in redis_servers.
1230 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1231 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1233 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1234 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1235 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1236 extant use locations.
1238 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1239 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1241 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1242 Previously only the last row was returned.
1244 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1245 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1246 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1247 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1250 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1251 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1252 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1253 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1254 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1255 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1256 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1257 Main pool for expansions.
1258 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1259 active in the testsuite.
1260 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1262 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1263 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1264 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1265 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1268 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1269 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1272 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1273 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1274 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1276 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1277 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1278 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1280 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1281 rows affected is given instead).
1283 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1284 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1286 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1287 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1288 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1289 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1290 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1292 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1293 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1294 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1296 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1297 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1298 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1299 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1302 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1303 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1304 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1307 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1309 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1310 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1312 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1313 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1314 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1316 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1317 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1318 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1321 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1322 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1324 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1325 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1326 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1328 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1329 for the build is renamed.
1331 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1332 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1333 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1335 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1336 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1337 result replacing the original.
1339 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1340 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1341 and the resources needed to be freed.
1343 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1345 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1348 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1349 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1350 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1351 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1353 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1354 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1356 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1357 newer versions of the scanner.
1359 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1360 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1361 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1362 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1363 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1364 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1365 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1367 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1368 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1369 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1370 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1371 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1372 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1373 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1374 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1375 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1376 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1378 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1379 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1381 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1383 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1384 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1386 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1387 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1389 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1390 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1391 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1393 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1394 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1395 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1396 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1398 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1399 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1402 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1403 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1405 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1406 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1407 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1408 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1409 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1411 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1412 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1415 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1416 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1418 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1421 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1422 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1423 "bare" representation.
1425 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1426 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1427 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1428 corrupted the output.
1434 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1435 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1436 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1437 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1439 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1440 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1442 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1443 This permits better logging.
1445 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1446 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1447 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1448 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1449 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1450 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1452 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1453 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1456 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1457 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1458 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1460 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1461 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1463 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1464 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1465 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1466 client, there is no benefit for these.
1467 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1468 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1469 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1472 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1473 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1475 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1476 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1477 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1479 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1480 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1482 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1483 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1484 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1485 signature and again for transmission.
1487 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1488 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1489 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1491 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1492 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1493 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1494 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1495 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1496 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1497 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1499 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1500 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1501 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1502 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1504 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1505 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1506 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1507 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1508 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1509 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1512 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1513 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1514 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1515 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1518 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1519 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1520 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1521 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1524 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1525 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1528 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1529 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1530 banner-time rejection.
1532 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1535 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1536 is the name of a transport.
1539 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1541 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1542 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1544 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1545 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1546 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1549 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1550 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1551 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1552 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1554 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1555 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1556 initial verify call returned a defer.
1558 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1559 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1561 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1562 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1564 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1565 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1567 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1568 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1570 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1571 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1574 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1575 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1577 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1578 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1579 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1581 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1582 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1583 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1584 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1586 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1587 and confused the parent.
1589 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1590 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1592 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1595 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1596 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1597 out-of-order delivery.
1599 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1600 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1601 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1604 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1605 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1608 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1609 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1610 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1612 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1613 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1614 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1615 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1616 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1617 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1619 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1620 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1621 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1623 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1624 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1625 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1627 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1628 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1629 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1630 though a different problem.
1636 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1637 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1639 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1641 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1642 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1644 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1645 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1647 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1648 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1649 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1650 before acknowledging the chunk.
1652 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1653 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1654 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1656 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1657 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1658 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1661 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1662 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1663 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1665 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1666 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1668 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1669 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1670 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1671 body hash calculated value.
1673 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1674 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1675 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1677 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1679 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1680 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1682 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1683 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1684 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1686 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1687 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1688 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1689 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1690 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1691 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1693 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1694 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1695 past that check, despite the cost.
1697 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1698 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1699 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1701 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1702 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1703 TLS library to consume.
1705 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1707 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1709 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1710 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1711 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1712 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1713 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1714 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1715 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1717 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1719 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1721 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1722 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1723 should be warning-free.
1725 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1727 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1728 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1730 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1731 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1732 general solution here.
1734 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1735 already-broken messages in the queue.
1737 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1739 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1745 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1746 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1748 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1749 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1750 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1752 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1753 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1754 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1755 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1756 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1757 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1758 if one fails this test.
1759 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1760 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1762 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1763 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1765 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1766 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1768 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1769 in rewrites and routers.
1771 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1772 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1774 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1775 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1777 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1779 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1782 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1783 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1784 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1785 connection after a verify cache hit.
1786 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1788 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1789 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1791 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1792 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1793 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1794 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1795 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1797 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1798 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1800 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1801 Previously they were not counted.
1803 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1804 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1805 that needed the lookup.
1807 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1808 distinguished as "(=".
1810 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1811 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1813 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1815 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1816 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1818 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1819 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1821 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1822 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1825 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1826 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1827 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1828 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1830 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1832 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1833 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1834 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1836 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1837 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1838 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1841 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1842 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1843 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1846 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1847 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1848 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1850 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1851 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1854 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1856 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1857 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1859 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1860 are not in the system include path.
1862 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1863 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1864 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1865 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1867 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1868 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1869 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1871 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1873 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1874 an incoming connection.
1876 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1879 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1880 fallback to "prime256v1".
1882 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1883 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1889 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1890 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1891 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1892 client dropping the TLS connection.
1894 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1895 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1897 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1898 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1899 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1900 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1903 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1904 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1905 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1906 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1907 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1908 check on the next write.
1910 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1911 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1912 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1913 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1914 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1916 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1917 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1919 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1920 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1921 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1923 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1924 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1925 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1926 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1928 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1929 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1931 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1932 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1934 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1935 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1936 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1939 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1941 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1943 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1945 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1946 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1948 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1949 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1951 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1953 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1954 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1956 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1958 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1959 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1961 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1963 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1964 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1965 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1966 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1967 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1968 they will retry in-clear.
1969 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1970 at installation time.
1972 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1973 with the $config_file variable.
1975 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1976 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1977 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1978 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1979 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1981 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1982 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1983 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1984 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1985 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1987 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1989 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1990 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1991 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1992 list order is no longer honoured.
1994 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1995 for DKIM processing.
1997 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1998 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
2000 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2001 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
2002 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
2003 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
2005 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
2006 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
2008 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
2009 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
2011 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
2012 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
2014 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
2016 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
2017 cached by the daemon.
2019 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2020 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
2022 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
2023 keys are given for lookup.
2025 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
2026 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
2027 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
2028 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
2030 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
2031 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
2032 server-side so match that on older versions.
2034 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
2035 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
2036 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
2038 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
2039 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
2041 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
2042 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
2043 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
2044 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
2045 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
2046 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
2047 initial truncated version.
2049 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
2051 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
2053 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
2054 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
2056 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
2058 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
2060 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
2061 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
2064 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
2065 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
2068 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
2069 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
2071 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
2072 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
2075 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
2076 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
2077 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
2079 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
2080 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
2081 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
2082 extraction. Accept either.
2088 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
2091 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
2093 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
2096 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
2097 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
2098 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
2099 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
2101 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
2102 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
2103 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
2105 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
2106 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
2107 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
2110 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
2113 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
2114 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
2115 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
2116 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
2117 have a dsn_lasthop option.
2119 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
2120 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
2121 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
2123 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
2125 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
2126 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
2128 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
2129 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
2131 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
2134 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
2135 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
2137 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
2138 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
2139 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
2141 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2142 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
2143 specify a port-range.
2145 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
2146 timeout value per server.
2148 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
2149 now have the list separator specified.
2151 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
2154 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
2157 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
2159 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
2160 rather than the verbs used.
2162 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
2163 from 255 to 1024 chars.
2165 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
2167 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
2168 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
2170 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
2171 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
2173 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
2174 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
2176 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
2178 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
2180 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
2181 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
2182 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
2183 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
2185 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
2187 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
2188 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
2190 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
2191 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
2193 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
2195 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
2197 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
2199 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
2200 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
2202 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
2203 added for tls authenticator.
2205 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
2211 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
2212 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
2213 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
2214 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
2215 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
2216 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
2217 the script parsing/test process like normal.
2219 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2220 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2221 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2222 function when detected.
2224 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2225 cause callback expansion.
2227 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2228 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2229 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2230 instead of bool when processing it.
2232 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2233 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2235 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2237 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2239 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2241 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2242 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2244 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2245 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2246 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2247 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2248 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2249 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2251 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2252 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2255 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2256 version 3.3.6 or later.
2258 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2259 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2260 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2261 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2262 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2263 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2266 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2267 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2269 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2270 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2271 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2274 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2275 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2276 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2278 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2279 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2281 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2282 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2285 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2287 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2288 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2290 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2291 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2294 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2296 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2299 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2300 output list separator was used.
2305 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2306 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2309 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2310 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2312 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2314 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2315 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2321 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2323 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2324 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2325 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2326 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2327 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2328 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2330 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2331 utilities have not been installed.
2333 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2334 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2336 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2337 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2339 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2340 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2341 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2342 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2344 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2346 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2347 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2349 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2352 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2354 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2355 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2356 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2358 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2359 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2360 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2361 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2362 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2363 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2365 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2367 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2368 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2370 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2373 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2375 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2377 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2378 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2380 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2381 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2383 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2385 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2387 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2388 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2390 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2391 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2392 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2394 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2395 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2396 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2399 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2401 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2402 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2405 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2406 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2409 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2410 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2412 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2413 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2415 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2417 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2418 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2419 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2421 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2422 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2424 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2425 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2428 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2429 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2430 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2432 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2434 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2435 Christian Aistleitner.
2437 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2439 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2440 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2442 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2443 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2445 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2446 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2448 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2449 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2451 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2452 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2454 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2455 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2456 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2458 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2460 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2461 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2464 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2466 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2467 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2474 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2476 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2477 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2479 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2482 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2483 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2486 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2488 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2489 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2490 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2491 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2492 using channel bindings instead).
2494 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2495 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2496 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2497 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2498 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2501 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2503 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2505 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2506 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2508 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2509 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2510 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2512 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2514 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2516 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2517 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2519 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2521 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2523 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2525 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2526 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2528 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2530 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2531 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2534 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2535 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2537 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2538 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2541 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2543 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2545 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2546 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2548 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2551 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2552 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2554 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2555 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2557 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2559 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2561 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2564 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2567 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2569 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2570 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2571 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2572 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2574 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2576 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2577 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2578 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2579 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2582 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2583 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2584 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2586 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2587 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2588 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2589 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2591 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2592 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2593 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2594 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2595 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2596 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2597 delivery, as in LMTP.
2599 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2600 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2602 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2604 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2608 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2609 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2610 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2611 username as equal to the username.
2613 This change corrects that bug.
2615 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2616 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2617 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2619 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2621 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2622 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2623 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2624 NULL dereference and crash.
2626 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2628 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2629 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2630 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2632 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2634 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2635 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2636 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2637 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2638 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2639 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2640 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2641 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2642 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2643 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2644 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2646 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2647 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2649 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2650 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2653 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2654 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2655 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2656 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2657 an empty string is now equivalent.
2659 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2660 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2661 not performing validation itself.
2663 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2664 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2666 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2669 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2671 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2672 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2673 other false fix of the same issue.
2674 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2677 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2678 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2680 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2681 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2682 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2684 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2685 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2686 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2688 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2690 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2692 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2693 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2695 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2698 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2699 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2700 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2701 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2702 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2704 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2705 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2707 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2708 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2711 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2712 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2713 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2714 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2716 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2718 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2719 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2720 from multiple comments on this bug.
2722 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2724 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2725 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2728 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2729 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2731 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2732 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2738 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2740 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2746 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2747 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2748 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2750 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2752 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2755 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2757 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2759 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2761 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2762 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2764 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2765 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2767 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2768 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2770 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2771 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2772 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2774 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2776 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2777 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2779 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2781 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2783 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2784 non-compliant senders.
2785 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2787 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2788 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2789 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2791 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2792 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2793 in spool file corruption.
2795 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2796 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2797 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2800 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2801 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2802 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2804 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2805 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2807 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2809 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2811 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2813 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2814 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2815 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2817 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2818 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2819 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2820 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2822 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2823 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2825 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2826 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2827 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2828 resolver implementation change.
2830 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2831 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2833 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2835 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2837 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2838 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2840 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2841 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2843 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2844 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2846 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2847 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2848 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2849 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2850 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2852 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2854 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2855 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2856 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2858 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2860 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2861 read-only, out of scope).
2862 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2864 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2865 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2866 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2867 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2869 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2871 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2872 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2873 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2874 real issues in debug logging.
2876 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2877 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2879 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2880 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2881 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2883 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2884 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2885 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2888 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2889 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2891 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2892 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2893 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2894 needs to override this, it can.
2896 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2897 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2898 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2900 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2901 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2902 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2903 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2905 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2911 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2912 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2914 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2916 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2919 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2920 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2922 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2923 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2924 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2926 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2927 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2928 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2929 not safe for signals.
2931 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2932 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2933 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2934 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2937 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2939 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2940 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2941 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2942 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2943 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2945 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2946 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2947 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2948 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2949 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2950 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2952 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2953 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2954 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2955 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2957 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2958 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2959 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2960 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2962 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2963 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2964 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2965 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2966 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2967 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2968 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2969 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2970 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2972 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2973 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2974 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2975 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2977 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2978 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2979 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2980 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2981 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2982 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2983 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2984 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2985 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2986 details in the main documentation.
2988 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2990 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2992 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2993 repository when doing development or release builds.
2995 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2996 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2998 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2999 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
3002 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
3004 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
3005 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
3007 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
3008 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3010 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
3011 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3013 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
3014 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
3016 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
3017 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3019 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
3021 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
3024 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
3025 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
3026 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
3028 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
3030 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
3032 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
3033 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
3039 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
3041 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
3042 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
3044 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
3046 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
3048 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
3051 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
3052 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
3054 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
3055 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
3057 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
3058 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
3060 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
3063 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
3064 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
3066 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
3067 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
3068 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
3069 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
3071 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
3072 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
3078 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
3081 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
3082 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
3083 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
3085 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
3086 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
3088 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
3089 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
3090 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
3092 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
3093 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
3095 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
3096 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
3098 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
3099 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
3101 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
3102 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
3104 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
3105 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
3107 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
3110 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
3111 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
3113 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
3114 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
3116 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
3117 SQL string expansion failure details.
3118 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
3120 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
3121 Patch from Simon Arlott.
3123 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
3124 extern declarations in function scope.
3125 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
3127 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
3128 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
3129 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
3132 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
3133 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3135 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
3136 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3138 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
3139 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3141 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
3142 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
3144 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
3145 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
3148 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
3150 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
3152 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
3153 Patch by Simon Arlott
3155 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
3156 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
3162 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
3163 consequences so log it to the panic log.
3165 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
3166 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
3168 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
3170 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
3171 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
3172 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
3174 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
3175 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
3176 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
3178 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
3179 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
3180 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
3181 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
3183 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
3184 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
3185 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
3186 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
3188 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
3189 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
3190 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
3193 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
3196 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
3197 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
3198 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
3199 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
3200 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
3206 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
3207 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
3208 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
3210 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
3211 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
3213 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
3215 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
3217 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
3219 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3221 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3223 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3224 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3225 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3226 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3228 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3229 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3230 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3231 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3232 more caution in buffer sizes.
3234 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3236 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3238 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3240 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3242 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3244 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3246 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3248 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3249 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3250 ignore trailing whitespace.
3252 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3254 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3257 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3258 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3260 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3261 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3262 Notification from John Horne.
3264 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3267 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3268 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3271 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3274 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3275 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3276 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3278 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3279 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3280 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3283 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3284 option (effectively making it always true).
3286 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3287 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3289 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3290 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3292 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3293 run-time user, instead of root.
3295 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3296 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3298 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3299 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3302 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3303 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3304 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3306 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3308 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3314 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3315 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3318 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3319 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3322 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3323 Patch from Alain Williams
3325 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3327 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3328 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3330 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3331 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3333 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3335 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3337 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3338 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3340 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3342 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3344 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3345 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3346 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3348 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3349 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3351 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3352 Patch by Simon Arlott
3354 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3355 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3361 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3363 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3365 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3367 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3369 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3375 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3376 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3378 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3379 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3382 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3383 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3384 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3386 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3387 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3389 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3390 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3391 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3392 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3394 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3395 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3396 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3398 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3400 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3402 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3403 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3405 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3407 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3408 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3409 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3410 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3412 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3413 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3415 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3417 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3419 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3420 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3422 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3423 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3425 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3426 that they are available at delivery time.
3428 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3430 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3431 incoming_port log selectors.
3433 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3434 setting expands to an empty string.
3436 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3437 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3439 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3440 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3442 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3443 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3445 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3446 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3448 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3449 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3451 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3452 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3454 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3456 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3457 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3459 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3460 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3462 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3464 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3465 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3467 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3469 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3471 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3474 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3475 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3477 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3478 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3480 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3481 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3483 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3484 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3486 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3487 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3489 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3490 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3492 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3493 plus update to original patch.
3495 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3497 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3498 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3500 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3502 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3504 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3506 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3508 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3509 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3511 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3512 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3514 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3515 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3517 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3518 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3520 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3522 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3524 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3526 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3532 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3533 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3534 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3536 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3537 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3538 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3539 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3540 build errors in sieve.c.
3542 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3543 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3544 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3546 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3548 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3550 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3552 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3558 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3560 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3561 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3562 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3563 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3564 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3565 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3566 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3567 for iplsearch lookups.
3569 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3570 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3571 previously such lookups could never work.
3573 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3574 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3575 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3577 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3580 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3581 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3582 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3583 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3584 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3585 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3587 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3588 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3590 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3591 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3592 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3593 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3594 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3595 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3597 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3600 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3602 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3603 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3606 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3607 by clients under certain conditions.
3609 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3610 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3612 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3614 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3615 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3617 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3619 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3621 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3623 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3624 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3626 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3628 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3629 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3631 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3633 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3635 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3636 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3637 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3638 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3640 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3641 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3642 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3644 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3645 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3647 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3649 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3651 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3653 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3654 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3655 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3661 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3662 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3665 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3666 issue a MAIL command.
3668 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3670 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3672 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3673 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3674 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3675 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3676 item. This has been fixed.
3678 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3679 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3681 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3682 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3684 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3685 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3686 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3688 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3690 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3691 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3692 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3693 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3694 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3696 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3697 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3698 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3700 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3701 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3702 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3703 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3705 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3707 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3709 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3710 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3711 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3712 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3713 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3715 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3717 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3718 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3719 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3722 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3724 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3726 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3728 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3730 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3732 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3733 no_callout_flush is set.
3735 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3736 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3737 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3740 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3742 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3743 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3744 other ACL rejections are.
3746 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3747 with slight modification.
3749 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3750 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3752 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3753 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3756 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3757 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3759 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3761 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3762 expansion side effects.
3764 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3765 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3766 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3769 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3770 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3771 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3773 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3774 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3775 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3776 were accidentally chopped off.
3778 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3779 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3780 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3781 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3782 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3783 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3784 pipelining has not been advertised.
3786 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3788 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3789 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3790 This has been fixed.
3792 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3793 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3794 reported on Solaris.
3796 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3797 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3798 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3799 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3800 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3801 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3802 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3804 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3807 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3809 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3811 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3812 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3813 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3814 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3815 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3816 criteria to be more general.
3818 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3819 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3820 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3821 host_all_ignored option.
3823 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3824 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3825 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3826 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3827 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3828 is what is supposed to happen).
3830 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3831 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3832 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3833 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3834 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3837 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3838 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3839 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3840 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3841 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3842 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3845 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3847 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3848 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3850 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3851 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3853 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3855 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3857 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3858 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3859 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3860 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3861 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3862 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3863 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3864 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3865 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3866 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3867 least in a lot of common cases.
3869 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3870 advertised in response to EHLO.
3876 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3877 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3879 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3880 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3882 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3883 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3884 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3886 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3887 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3888 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3889 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3890 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3896 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3897 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3900 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3901 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3902 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3904 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3905 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3906 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3907 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3908 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3909 rather than extend the field.
3915 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3916 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3917 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3918 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3921 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3922 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3923 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3925 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3926 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3927 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3929 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3930 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3931 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3934 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3935 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3936 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3937 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3938 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3939 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3940 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3941 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3942 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3943 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3944 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3946 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3949 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3950 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3951 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3952 ignores EPIPE as well.
3954 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3955 (quoted-printable decoding).
3957 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3958 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3960 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3962 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3964 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3966 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3967 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3969 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3972 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3973 miscellaneous code fixes
3975 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3978 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3979 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3980 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3981 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3982 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3983 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3984 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3985 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3987 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3988 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3989 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3990 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3992 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3993 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3994 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3995 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3996 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3997 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3998 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3999 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
4000 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
4002 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
4005 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
4006 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
4007 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
4008 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
4009 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
4010 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
4011 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
4012 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
4014 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
4015 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
4018 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
4019 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
4020 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
4021 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
4022 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
4023 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
4024 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
4025 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
4026 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
4027 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
4028 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
4029 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
4030 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
4032 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
4033 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
4034 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
4035 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
4036 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
4037 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
4038 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
4040 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
4041 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
4042 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
4043 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
4044 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
4045 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
4046 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
4047 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
4048 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
4049 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
4051 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
4052 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
4053 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
4054 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
4055 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
4057 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
4058 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
4059 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
4060 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
4061 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
4062 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
4063 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
4065 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
4066 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
4067 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
4068 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
4069 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
4070 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
4073 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
4074 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
4075 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
4078 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
4079 if any retry times were supplied.
4081 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
4082 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
4083 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
4085 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
4087 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
4089 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
4090 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
4091 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
4092 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
4093 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
4094 before) are ignored.
4096 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
4097 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
4099 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
4100 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
4101 committing the later change.]
4103 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
4104 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
4105 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
4106 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
4107 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
4108 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
4109 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
4110 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
4111 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
4113 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
4114 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
4115 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
4116 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
4117 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
4118 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
4119 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
4120 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
4121 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
4123 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
4124 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
4125 hammering the server.
4127 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
4128 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
4130 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
4132 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
4133 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
4134 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
4136 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
4137 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
4138 one case where this was not true.
4140 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
4141 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
4142 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
4143 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
4146 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
4147 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
4148 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
4149 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4150 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
4151 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
4152 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
4153 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
4154 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
4157 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
4158 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
4159 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
4160 same for both kinds of LMTP.
4162 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
4163 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
4165 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
4166 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
4167 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
4169 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
4171 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
4173 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
4175 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
4176 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
4177 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
4178 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
4180 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
4181 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
4183 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
4184 be meaningful with "accept".
4186 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
4187 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
4189 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
4190 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
4191 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4193 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
4194 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
4195 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
4196 there is data to show.
4197 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
4199 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
4200 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
4201 as well as the number of messages.
4203 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
4204 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
4205 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
4207 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
4208 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
4209 have a flag are now skipped.
4211 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
4212 Added the -emptyok flag.
4214 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
4215 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
4217 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
4218 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4219 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4221 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4224 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4225 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4227 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4229 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4230 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4232 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4234 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4235 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4236 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4237 contravention of the specifications.
4239 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4240 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4241 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4243 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4244 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4245 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4247 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4249 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4250 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4251 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4252 some point in the past.
4254 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4255 transport during callout processing was broken.
4257 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4258 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4260 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4261 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4263 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4264 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4266 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4272 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4273 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4275 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4276 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4277 there is data to show.
4278 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4280 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4281 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4283 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4284 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4286 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4287 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4289 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4290 submissions from trusted users.
4292 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4293 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4295 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4296 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4297 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4298 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4299 there is now a framework to start from.
4301 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4302 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4303 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4305 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4307 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4309 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4311 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4312 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4313 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4315 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4318 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4319 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4320 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4322 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4323 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4324 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4327 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4328 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4329 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4330 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4331 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4333 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4334 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4336 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4338 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4339 operations in malware.c.
4341 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4344 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4345 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4346 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4349 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4350 statements to "add_header".
4352 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4353 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4355 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4356 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4359 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4363 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4364 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4365 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4368 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4369 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4371 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4372 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4374 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4375 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4376 any possible encoding problems.
4378 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4379 but not after initializing Perl.
4381 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4382 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4383 apparently, which is not desirable.
4385 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4388 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4391 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4393 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4394 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4395 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4396 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4398 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4399 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4400 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4402 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4403 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4404 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4407 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4408 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4409 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4410 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4411 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4417 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4418 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4420 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4423 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4424 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4425 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4426 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4427 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4428 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4429 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4430 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4433 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4435 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4436 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4437 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4439 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4440 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4441 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4444 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4445 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4447 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4448 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4449 option (which defaults to 0600).
4451 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4453 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4454 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4455 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4456 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4457 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4458 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4459 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4461 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4467 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4468 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4469 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4470 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4471 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4472 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4475 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4476 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4478 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4480 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4481 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4482 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4483 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4484 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4487 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4488 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4490 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4491 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4492 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4493 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4494 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4496 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4497 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4498 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4499 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4501 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4502 be the same on different OS.
4504 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4507 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4508 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4510 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4513 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4514 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4515 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4516 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4517 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4518 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4521 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4522 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4523 when Exim was called.
4525 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4526 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4528 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4529 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4530 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4531 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4533 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4534 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4535 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4536 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4539 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4540 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4541 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4543 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4544 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4545 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4547 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4550 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4551 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4552 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4553 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4554 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4555 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4556 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4557 values from the SRV records were lost.
4559 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4560 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4561 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4563 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4564 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4565 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4567 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4568 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4569 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4570 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4571 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4572 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4573 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4574 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4575 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4576 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4578 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4579 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4580 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4582 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4583 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4585 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4586 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4587 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4588 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4591 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4592 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4593 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4595 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4596 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4597 PH/23 above applies.
4599 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4600 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4601 (for which there is an explicit test).
4603 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4605 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4606 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4607 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4608 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4609 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4611 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4612 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4613 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4614 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4616 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4617 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4618 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4620 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4622 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4624 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4625 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4626 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4628 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4629 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4630 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4631 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4632 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4634 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4635 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4636 the message gets confusing).
4638 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4639 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4640 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4641 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4643 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4644 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4645 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4646 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4649 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4650 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4651 the different processes.
4653 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4655 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4657 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4658 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4660 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4661 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4663 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4664 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4665 messages matching specified criteria.
4667 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4669 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4670 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4672 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4673 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4674 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4675 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4676 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4677 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4678 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4679 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4680 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4681 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4683 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4684 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4685 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4687 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4689 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4690 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4691 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4692 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4693 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4694 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4695 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4698 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4699 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4701 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4703 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4705 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4707 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4708 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4709 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4710 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4711 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4712 size of the count of files.
4714 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4716 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4719 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4720 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4721 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4722 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4724 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4725 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4726 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4728 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4729 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4730 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4731 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4732 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4734 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4735 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4737 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4738 will now be deprecated.
4740 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4742 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4743 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4744 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4746 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4747 with very large, slow to parse queues
4749 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4751 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4753 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4754 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4755 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4758 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4759 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4760 Sieve code now uses this.
4762 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4763 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4765 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4766 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4768 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4770 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4771 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4772 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4773 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4774 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4776 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4777 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4778 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4779 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4781 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4783 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4785 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4786 is preferred over IPv4.
4788 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4789 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4790 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4791 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4792 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4793 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4794 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4796 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4797 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4798 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4800 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4802 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4803 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4804 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4805 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4806 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4807 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4808 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4809 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4810 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4811 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4812 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4814 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4815 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4816 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4822 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4824 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4825 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4827 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4828 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4829 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4831 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4833 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4836 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4839 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4840 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4841 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4844 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4845 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4847 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4848 inside the third argument.
4850 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4851 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4854 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4855 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4857 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4858 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4860 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4862 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4863 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4866 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4868 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4869 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4870 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4871 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4872 identical. For example:
4874 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4876 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4877 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4878 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4880 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4881 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4882 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4883 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4885 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4886 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4887 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4890 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4892 o fixes some comments
4893 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4894 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4895 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4896 and documents the missing references header update
4900 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4901 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4904 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4905 Electronic Mail") by including:
4907 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4909 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4910 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4911 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4912 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4913 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4915 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4917 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4919 The auto-replied keyword:
4921 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4922 message by an automatic process,
4924 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4926 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4927 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4929 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4930 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4933 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4934 to the default Received: header definition.
4936 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4938 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4939 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4940 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4942 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4943 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4944 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4946 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4947 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4948 and treats the condition as false.
4950 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4952 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4953 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4954 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4955 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4956 not changing the active code.
4958 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4959 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4961 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4962 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4964 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4967 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4968 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4969 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4970 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4971 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4972 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4973 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4974 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4975 the text comparison.
4977 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4978 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4979 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4980 The same fix has been applied.
4986 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4987 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4990 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4991 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4993 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4995 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4996 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4997 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4998 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4999 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
5001 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
5002 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
5003 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
5004 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
5007 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
5015 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
5016 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
5018 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
5020 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
5022 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
5023 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
5024 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
5026 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
5027 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
5028 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
5030 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
5031 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
5034 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
5035 ${stat: expansion item.
5037 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
5038 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
5040 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
5041 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
5044 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5046 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
5049 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
5050 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
5052 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
5054 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
5055 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
5056 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
5057 the end of the subprocess.
5059 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
5060 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
5061 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
5062 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
5063 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
5065 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
5067 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
5069 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
5070 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
5072 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
5074 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
5076 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
5077 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
5080 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
5082 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
5083 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
5084 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
5086 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
5087 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
5089 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
5090 host errors such as "Connection refused".
5092 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
5093 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
5095 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
5096 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
5098 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
5099 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
5100 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
5101 contributed by a Radius user.
5103 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
5104 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
5106 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
5107 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
5109 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
5112 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
5113 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
5116 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
5117 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
5118 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
5119 header lines when this was not necessary.
5121 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
5123 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
5124 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
5125 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
5128 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
5131 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
5132 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
5133 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
5134 return code was incorrect.
5136 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
5138 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
5140 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
5142 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
5144 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
5145 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
5146 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
5147 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
5148 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
5151 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
5153 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
5154 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
5155 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
5156 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
5157 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
5158 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
5159 which is clearly wrong.
5161 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
5163 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
5164 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
5165 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
5168 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
5169 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
5171 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
5173 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
5174 the "build-* directories that it finds.
5176 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
5177 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
5179 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
5180 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
5182 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
5183 recipients, not senders.
5185 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
5186 the ratelimit ACL was added.
5188 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
5190 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
5192 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
5193 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
5194 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
5195 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
5197 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
5199 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
5200 clock is set back in time.
5202 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
5203 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
5205 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
5206 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
5208 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
5209 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
5212 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
5213 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
5216 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
5219 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5221 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5222 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5223 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5225 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5226 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5227 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5228 helo verification defer as a failure.
5230 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5231 actual error message.
5237 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5239 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5240 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5241 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5242 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5244 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5246 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5247 can still be requested.
5249 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5250 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5251 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5252 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5254 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5255 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5256 circumstances, but probably never did.
5258 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5259 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5260 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5263 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5265 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5266 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5268 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5270 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5272 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5273 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5274 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5275 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5276 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5277 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5279 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5280 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5281 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5282 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5283 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5284 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5286 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5287 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5289 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5290 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5292 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5293 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5295 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5297 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5299 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5301 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5303 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5305 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5307 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5309 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5310 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5311 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5313 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5314 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5315 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5316 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5318 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5319 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5320 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5322 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5323 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5324 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5325 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5327 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5328 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5331 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5332 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5333 should work with maildirs and everything.
5335 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5336 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5338 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5341 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5342 function for BDB 4.3.
5344 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5346 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5347 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5350 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5351 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5352 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5353 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5354 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5355 formatting function string_vformat().
5357 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5358 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5359 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5360 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5361 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5362 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5363 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5364 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5366 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5367 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5370 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5371 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5373 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5374 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5375 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5376 test. It is now used for both.
5378 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5379 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5380 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5381 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5382 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5383 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5385 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5386 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5387 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5390 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5391 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5392 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5394 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5395 experimental DomainKeys support:
5397 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5398 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5399 the control was given.
5401 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5403 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5405 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5407 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5408 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5409 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5412 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5413 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5414 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5415 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5416 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5417 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5420 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5421 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5422 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5423 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5424 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5425 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5427 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5428 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5429 do -d+all out of habit.
5431 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5432 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5435 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5436 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5437 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5438 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5439 record types that Exim uses.
5441 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5442 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5443 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5444 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5445 non-existent file that was broken.
5447 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5448 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5450 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5451 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5452 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5454 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5456 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5457 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5458 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5459 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5460 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5463 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5464 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5465 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5466 at a slight CPU cost.
5468 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5469 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5471 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5474 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5476 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5477 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5483 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5484 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5486 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5488 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5490 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5491 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5493 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5494 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5495 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5496 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5497 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5498 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5501 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5502 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5503 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5504 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5507 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5508 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5509 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5510 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5511 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5512 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5513 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5516 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5517 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5519 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5520 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5521 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5522 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5523 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5524 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5526 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5527 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5528 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5529 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5531 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5534 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5535 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5537 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5538 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5539 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5540 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5543 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5545 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5546 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5548 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5549 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5550 to what was transported.)
5552 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5554 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5555 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5556 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5557 spamd_address settings.
5559 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5560 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5561 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5562 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5563 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5565 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5567 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5568 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5569 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5570 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5571 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5573 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5574 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5576 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5577 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5578 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5579 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5580 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5581 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5582 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5585 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5586 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5587 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5588 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5589 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5590 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5591 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5594 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5596 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5597 driver and ACL definitions.
5599 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5600 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5602 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5603 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5604 understands it better than I do:
5606 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5607 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5609 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5610 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5611 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5612 => three warnings about OTP not working
5613 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5615 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5616 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5617 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5618 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5620 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5621 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5623 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5624 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5625 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5627 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5628 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5631 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5632 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5635 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5636 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5637 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5639 warn !verify = sender
5640 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5642 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5643 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5645 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5647 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5648 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5650 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5651 nomenclature these days.)
5653 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5654 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5656 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5657 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5658 . First host does not offer TLS;
5659 . First host accepts first address;
5660 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5661 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5662 . Second host accepts second address.
5663 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5664 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5667 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5668 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5669 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5670 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5671 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5673 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5674 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5676 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5677 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5679 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5680 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5681 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5683 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5684 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5687 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5689 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5690 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5691 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5692 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5693 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5694 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5695 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5697 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5698 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5699 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5700 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5701 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5703 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5704 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5707 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5708 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5709 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5710 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5711 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5712 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5714 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5716 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5717 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5718 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5719 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5720 printable escape sequences.
5722 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5723 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5726 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5727 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5730 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5731 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5732 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5733 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5734 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5736 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5737 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5738 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5740 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5742 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5743 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5746 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5747 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5748 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5749 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5750 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5751 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5752 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5753 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5754 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5757 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5758 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5759 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5760 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5764 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5765 ----------------------------------------
5767 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5768 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5769 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5770 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5771 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5772 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5775 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5776 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5777 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5778 historical information.
5784 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5786 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5787 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5789 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5790 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5793 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5794 filter fails to execute.
5796 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5797 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5798 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5799 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5800 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5802 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5804 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5805 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5806 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5807 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5809 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5810 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5811 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5812 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5813 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5815 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5817 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5819 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5820 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5821 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5822 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5824 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5825 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5826 sender verification.
5828 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5829 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5831 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5833 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5836 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5837 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5839 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5840 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5842 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5843 information about exactly what failed.
5845 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5847 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5848 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5849 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5851 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5852 It is now set to "smtps".
5854 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5855 ignore_target_hosts.
5857 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5858 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5859 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5860 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5863 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5864 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5865 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5867 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5868 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5869 wake it up if nothing else does.
5871 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5872 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5873 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5876 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5877 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5879 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5881 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5882 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5883 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5884 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5885 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5886 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5887 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5888 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5890 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5891 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5892 than one IP address.
5894 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5895 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5896 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5897 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5899 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5900 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5901 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5902 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5903 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5906 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5907 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5908 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5909 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5911 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5912 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5915 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5916 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5917 $sender_host_address.
5919 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5920 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5921 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5922 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5923 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5926 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5928 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5929 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5931 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5932 just the host names, not the priorities.
5934 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5935 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5936 controlled by a keyword.
5938 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5939 multiple records are returned.
5941 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5942 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5945 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5947 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5948 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5950 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5951 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5952 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5954 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5956 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5958 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5960 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5961 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5962 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5963 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5964 because the tests only now provoked it.
5966 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5967 (this can affect the format of dates).
5969 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5970 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5971 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5972 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5974 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5976 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5977 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5978 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5979 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5981 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5982 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5983 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5985 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5988 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5989 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5990 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5991 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5992 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5993 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5996 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5997 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5998 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
6001 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
6002 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
6003 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
6005 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
6006 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
6007 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
6008 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
6009 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
6010 so I produce this patch..."
6012 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
6013 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
6016 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6017 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6018 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6019 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6022 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
6024 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
6025 long debug lines gets shown.
6027 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
6028 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
6030 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
6032 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
6033 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
6034 of $primary_hostname.
6036 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6037 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6038 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6039 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6040 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6041 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6042 by change 4.50/55 above.
6044 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6045 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6046 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6047 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6048 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6049 running as the user.
6052 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6053 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6054 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6057 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
6058 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
6060 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6061 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6062 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6063 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6064 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6066 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
6067 This has been fixed.
6069 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6070 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6071 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6072 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6075 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
6077 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
6078 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
6079 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
6080 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
6082 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
6083 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
6085 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
6086 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
6087 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
6089 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
6090 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
6091 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
6094 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
6095 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
6096 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
6098 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
6099 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
6100 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
6101 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
6103 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
6104 during host lookups.
6106 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
6107 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
6109 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
6111 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
6112 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
6113 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
6114 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
6115 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
6118 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
6119 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
6121 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
6122 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
6123 for the non-SMTP ACL.
6125 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
6127 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
6128 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
6129 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
6130 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
6131 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
6132 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
6135 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
6136 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
6137 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
6138 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
6139 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
6141 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
6144 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
6146 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
6147 "vacation" handling.
6149 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
6150 OS variants using glibc.
6152 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
6155 ----------------------------------------------------
6156 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
6157 ----------------------------------------------------
6163 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
6164 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
6167 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6168 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6171 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6172 filter fails to execute.
6174 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6175 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6176 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6177 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6178 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6180 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6181 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6182 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6183 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6185 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6186 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6187 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6188 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6189 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6191 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6193 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6194 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6195 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6196 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6198 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6199 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6200 sender verification.
6202 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6203 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6205 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6206 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6208 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6209 ignore_target_hosts.
6211 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6212 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6213 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6214 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6217 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6218 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6219 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6221 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6222 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6223 wake it up if nothing else does.
6225 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6226 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6227 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6230 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6231 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6233 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6235 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6236 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6239 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6240 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6243 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6244 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6245 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6246 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6247 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6250 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6251 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6254 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6255 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6256 $sender_host_address.
6258 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6260 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6261 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6262 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6264 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6267 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6268 (this can affect the format of dates).
6270 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6271 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6272 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6273 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6275 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6276 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6277 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6279 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6280 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6281 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6282 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6284 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6285 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6286 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6288 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6291 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6292 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6293 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6294 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6295 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6296 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6299 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6300 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6301 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6302 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6305 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6306 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6307 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6308 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6309 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6310 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6311 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6313 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6314 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6315 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6316 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6317 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6318 running as the user.
6321 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6322 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6323 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6326 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6327 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6328 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6329 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6330 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6332 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6333 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6334 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6335 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6338 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6339 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6340 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6341 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6342 because the tests only now provoked it.
6348 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6349 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6350 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6351 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6352 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6353 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6354 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6356 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6357 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6360 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6362 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6364 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6365 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6368 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6369 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6370 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6371 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6372 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6374 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6375 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6377 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6379 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6381 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6384 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6385 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6387 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6388 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6389 affecting debugging statements).
6391 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6393 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6394 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6395 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6396 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6397 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6398 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6399 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6400 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6401 after the received time, and all would be well.
6403 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6404 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6405 condition in an expansion string.
6407 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6409 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6410 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6411 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6412 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6413 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6414 job under whatever limits there are.
6416 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6418 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6421 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6422 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6423 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6424 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6427 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6428 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6429 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6430 binary data in such strings.
6432 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6434 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6435 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6436 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6437 failure, which is pointless.
6439 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6441 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6443 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6444 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6445 Sender: header lines.
6447 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6448 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6449 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6451 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6452 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6453 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6454 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6455 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6458 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6459 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6460 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6461 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6462 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6464 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6465 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6466 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6469 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6470 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6472 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6473 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6475 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6477 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6479 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6481 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6484 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6486 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6488 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6489 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6490 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6491 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6493 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6494 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6500 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6501 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6502 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6504 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6505 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6506 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6507 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6508 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6509 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6511 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6512 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6513 verification failure".
6515 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6516 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6517 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6518 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6520 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6521 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6522 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6523 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6524 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6525 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6526 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6527 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6528 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6529 treated as a timeout.
6531 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6532 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6533 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6534 not set for Exim filters).
6536 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6537 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6538 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6540 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6542 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6543 try to make them clearer.
6545 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6546 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6548 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6550 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6552 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6553 only the Cygwin environment.
6555 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6556 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6557 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6558 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6559 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6561 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6562 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6563 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6564 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6565 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6566 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6567 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6569 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6570 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6572 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6574 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6575 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6576 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6578 To: susanne@some.where
6580 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6581 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6582 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6583 of addresses in From: header lines).
6585 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6586 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6587 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6589 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6590 treated as non-personal.
6592 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6593 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6595 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6597 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6599 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6600 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6601 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6603 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6604 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6606 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6607 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6608 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6609 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6610 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6611 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6613 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6614 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6615 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6616 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6617 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6618 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6619 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6620 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6622 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6624 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6625 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6627 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6628 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6629 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6631 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6632 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6634 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6635 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6636 rather than long int.
6638 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6640 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6646 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6647 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6648 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6649 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6650 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6651 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6657 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6658 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6660 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6661 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6662 socklen_t is defined.
6664 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6667 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6670 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6671 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6672 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6673 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6674 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6676 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6677 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6678 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6679 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6681 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6682 of flapping under certain conditions.
6684 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6685 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6686 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6688 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6690 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6692 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6693 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6694 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6695 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6697 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6698 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6699 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6700 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6701 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6702 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6703 preserved with the message after it was received.
6705 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6706 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6707 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6708 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6709 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6710 test suite worked just fine.
6712 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6713 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6714 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6716 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6717 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6720 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6721 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6722 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6723 does not fully solve it.
6725 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6726 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6727 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6728 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6729 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6731 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6732 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6733 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6735 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6736 string, for example:
6738 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6740 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6741 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6742 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6743 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6744 the routers could not see them.
6746 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6747 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6749 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6750 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6753 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6754 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6755 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6756 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6757 that needed quoting.
6759 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6760 was not being matched caselessly.
6762 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6765 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6766 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6767 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6768 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6769 when use_sender is false.
6771 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6773 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6775 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6777 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6778 the configuration file.
6780 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6781 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6783 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6785 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6786 bytes in the message body.
6788 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6789 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6792 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6794 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6796 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6797 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6798 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6799 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6806 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6807 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6809 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6810 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6811 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6812 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6813 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6815 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6816 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6818 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6819 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6820 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6822 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6823 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6824 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6826 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6829 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6830 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6831 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6832 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6833 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6834 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6835 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6841 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6842 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6843 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6844 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6845 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6846 default (and expected) setting.
6848 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6849 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6850 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6851 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6853 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6854 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6856 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6859 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6860 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6861 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6862 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6863 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6864 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6866 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6867 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6868 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6870 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6871 part (NOT match_host).
6873 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6875 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6876 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6877 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6878 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6879 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6880 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6881 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6882 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6883 the same named file.
6885 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6886 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6889 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6890 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6891 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6892 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6895 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6896 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6897 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6899 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6901 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6903 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6905 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6906 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6908 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6909 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6910 before starting the TLS session.
6912 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6914 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6915 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6917 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6918 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6919 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6920 colon in the middle).
6926 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6927 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6928 multiple configurations are in use.
6930 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6931 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6932 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6933 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6934 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6935 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6937 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6938 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6940 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6941 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6942 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6944 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6945 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6948 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6949 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6951 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6953 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6954 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6956 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6964 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6965 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6966 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6967 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6968 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6970 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6973 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6974 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6975 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6976 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6977 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6978 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6980 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6981 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6982 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6983 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6984 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6985 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6986 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6989 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6990 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6991 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6992 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6993 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6995 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6997 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6998 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6999 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
7001 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
7003 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
7004 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
7005 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
7008 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
7009 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
7011 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
7012 Three changes have been made:
7014 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
7015 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
7016 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
7017 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
7018 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
7020 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
7023 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
7024 the modified behaviour.
7030 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
7033 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
7034 indeed breaks things for older releases.
7036 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
7037 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
7038 try to track down a specific problem.
7040 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
7041 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
7042 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
7044 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
7047 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
7048 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
7049 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
7050 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
7051 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
7052 some earlier ones do not.
7054 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
7056 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
7057 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
7058 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7059 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
7060 address literals are enabled, of course).
7062 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
7064 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
7065 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
7066 by a command such as
7070 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
7072 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
7074 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
7075 remained set. It is now erased.
7077 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
7078 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
7080 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
7081 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
7082 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
7083 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
7084 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
7085 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
7086 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
7087 appropriate error code.
7089 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
7090 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
7091 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
7092 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
7093 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
7094 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
7096 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
7097 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
7098 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
7100 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
7101 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
7102 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
7103 terminate the header.
7105 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
7106 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
7107 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
7109 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
7110 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
7111 (4.30/29). In particular:
7113 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
7116 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
7117 to write a maildirsize file.
7119 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
7120 the transport, the new value overrides.
7122 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
7125 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
7126 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
7127 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
7130 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
7131 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
7132 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
7135 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
7136 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
7137 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
7139 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
7140 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
7143 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
7144 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
7145 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
7147 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
7149 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
7151 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
7153 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
7154 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
7157 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
7158 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
7159 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
7160 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
7161 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
7162 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
7163 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
7166 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
7167 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
7168 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
7169 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
7170 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
7173 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
7174 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
7175 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
7176 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
7177 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
7178 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
7179 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
7180 cached value only when the same options are set.
7182 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
7184 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
7185 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
7186 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
7187 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
7188 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
7190 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
7191 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
7192 it is clearly obsolete.
7194 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
7197 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
7198 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
7199 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
7202 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
7203 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
7204 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
7205 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
7206 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
7208 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
7209 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
7210 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
7211 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
7213 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
7215 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
7217 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
7218 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7221 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7222 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7223 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7224 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7225 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7226 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7229 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7230 with the -f command-line option.
7232 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7233 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7234 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7235 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7236 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7237 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7239 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7240 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7243 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7244 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7245 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7246 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7247 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7248 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7249 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7250 buffer is too small.
7252 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7253 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7255 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7256 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7257 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7258 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7259 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7260 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7261 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7262 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7263 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7265 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7266 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7267 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7269 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7270 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7273 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7274 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7275 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7276 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7277 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7279 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7280 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7281 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7282 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7285 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7287 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7289 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7290 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7292 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7293 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7294 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7296 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7297 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7298 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7299 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7300 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7302 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7303 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7304 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7305 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7306 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7307 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7308 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7310 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7311 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7312 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7313 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7314 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7315 the test of how many are available.
7317 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7318 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7319 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7320 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7321 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7322 new message is started.
7324 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7325 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7327 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7328 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7330 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7331 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7332 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7335 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7336 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7337 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7338 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7339 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7340 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7341 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7343 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7344 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7345 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7346 interpreted as octal.
7348 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7351 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7352 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7353 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7354 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7355 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7356 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7358 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7359 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7360 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7361 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7363 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7364 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7365 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7366 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7368 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7369 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7372 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7373 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7375 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7377 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7378 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7379 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7380 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7382 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7383 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7384 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7385 supplied", which is not helpful.
7387 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7388 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7389 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7391 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7392 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7393 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7394 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7395 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7396 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7397 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7398 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7400 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7401 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7402 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7403 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7404 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7406 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7407 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7408 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7409 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7410 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7411 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7413 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7414 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7415 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7417 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7419 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7420 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7421 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7424 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7426 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7427 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7428 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7429 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7430 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7431 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7432 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7433 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7435 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7436 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7437 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7438 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7439 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7441 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7444 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7445 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7446 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7447 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7448 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7449 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7450 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7451 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7452 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7458 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7459 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7460 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7462 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7465 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7466 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7467 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7469 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7470 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7471 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7472 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7473 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7474 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7476 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7477 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7478 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7479 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7480 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7481 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7482 the Exim test suite.
7484 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7485 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7486 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7487 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7489 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7490 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7491 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7492 specify it in this variable.
7494 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7495 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7496 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7497 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7499 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7500 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7501 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7502 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7504 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7505 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7506 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7507 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7508 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7510 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7512 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7515 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7516 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7517 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7518 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7519 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7521 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7522 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7524 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7525 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7526 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7527 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7528 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7530 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7531 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7533 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7534 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7535 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7537 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7538 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7540 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7541 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7543 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7544 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7545 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7547 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7548 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7550 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7551 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7552 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7553 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7555 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7557 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7558 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7559 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7560 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7562 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7564 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7565 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7567 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7569 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7570 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7571 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7572 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7573 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7574 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7576 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7578 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7579 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7582 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7584 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7585 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7587 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7588 550 Sender verify failed
7590 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7591 the final line of the response.
7593 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7594 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7595 all other user lookups.
7597 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7600 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7601 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7602 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7603 result into an int without checking.
7605 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7606 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7607 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7609 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7610 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7611 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7612 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7614 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7617 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7618 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7620 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7621 to the empty sender.
7623 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7624 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7625 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7626 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7627 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7628 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7629 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7632 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7633 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7634 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7635 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7638 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7639 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7641 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7644 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7645 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7647 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7649 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7650 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7653 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7654 as soon as it is encountered.
7656 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7658 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7661 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7662 recognizes a tab character.
7664 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7665 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7666 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7667 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7669 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7671 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7674 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7676 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7678 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7679 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7682 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7683 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7684 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7685 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7686 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7688 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7689 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7691 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7692 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7693 list (.included file names were always shown).
7695 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7696 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7697 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7700 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7701 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7703 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7705 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7707 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7709 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7710 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7711 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7712 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7713 failures to open the logs.
7715 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7716 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7717 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7718 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7719 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7720 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7721 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7727 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7728 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7729 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7732 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7733 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7734 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7736 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7737 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7738 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7740 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7741 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7742 causing some misleading effects.
7744 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7745 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7746 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7748 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7749 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7750 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7751 queue-runner function directly.
7757 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7760 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7761 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7762 was always written to the default place.
7764 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7765 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7766 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7768 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7770 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7772 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7773 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7774 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7776 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7777 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7780 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7781 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7782 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7784 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7785 command line option is disabled.
7787 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7788 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7790 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7792 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7794 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7795 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7797 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7799 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7800 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7801 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7802 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7803 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7804 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7806 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7807 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7810 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7811 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7813 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7814 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7816 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7817 received was valid base64.
7819 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7820 name of the variable that was being set.
7822 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7824 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7825 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7826 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7827 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7828 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7829 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7831 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7833 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7834 nor realm was specified.
7836 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7837 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7838 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7839 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7841 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7842 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7843 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7845 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7846 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7847 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7849 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7850 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7851 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7852 some systems use these upper case variants.
7854 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7855 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7856 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7857 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7859 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7861 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7862 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7864 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7865 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7868 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7870 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7871 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7872 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7873 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7875 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7878 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7879 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7880 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7882 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7883 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7885 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7886 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7887 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7888 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7890 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7891 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7892 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7894 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7896 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7897 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7898 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7899 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7902 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7903 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7904 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7906 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7908 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7909 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7911 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7912 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7914 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7915 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7916 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7917 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7918 when emails are that large.
7925 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7926 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7928 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7929 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7930 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7932 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7933 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7934 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7936 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7937 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7938 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7939 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7940 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7942 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7943 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7944 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7945 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7946 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7949 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7950 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7951 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7952 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7953 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7954 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7955 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7956 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7957 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7958 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7959 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7960 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7961 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7962 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7964 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7965 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7968 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7969 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7970 error should be diagnosed.
7972 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7973 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7974 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7975 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7976 appeared instead of "NULL".
7978 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7979 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7980 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7981 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7982 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7983 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7986 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7987 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7988 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7994 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7995 or receiver verification errors.
7997 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
8000 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
8001 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
8002 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
8003 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
8005 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
8006 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
8007 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
8008 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
8009 shouldn't happen again.
8011 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
8012 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
8013 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
8015 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
8016 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
8018 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
8020 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
8021 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
8023 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
8024 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
8027 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
8028 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
8029 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
8031 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
8032 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
8033 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
8034 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
8036 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
8037 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
8038 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
8039 to define what should happen).
8041 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
8042 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
8043 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
8045 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
8047 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
8049 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
8050 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
8052 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
8053 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
8054 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
8055 structure in all cases.
8057 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
8058 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
8059 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
8060 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
8062 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
8063 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
8066 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
8067 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
8069 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
8070 MD5 (which is deprecated).
8072 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
8073 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
8074 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
8076 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
8077 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
8078 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
8080 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
8081 the book and for uniformity.
8083 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
8085 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
8086 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
8087 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
8088 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
8089 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
8090 non-existent command as the problem.
8092 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
8093 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
8094 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
8096 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
8098 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
8099 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
8100 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
8102 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
8103 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
8104 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
8105 timestamps using strftime().
8107 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
8108 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
8110 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
8111 transport-time rewrites.
8113 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
8114 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
8115 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
8116 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
8118 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
8119 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
8121 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
8122 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
8123 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
8124 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
8127 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
8128 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
8129 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
8130 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
8131 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
8132 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
8133 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
8135 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
8136 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
8137 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
8138 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
8139 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
8141 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
8142 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
8143 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
8144 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
8145 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
8146 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
8147 remaining text gets split now.
8149 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
8150 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
8151 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
8152 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
8154 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
8155 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
8156 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
8157 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
8160 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
8161 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
8162 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
8163 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
8164 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
8165 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
8166 passed through if needed.
8168 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
8169 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
8170 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
8171 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
8172 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
8173 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
8175 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
8176 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
8177 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
8178 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
8179 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
8181 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
8182 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
8183 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
8184 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
8185 incorrect size information for certain domains.
8187 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
8188 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
8191 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
8192 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
8193 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
8194 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
8195 mayhem of various kinds.
8197 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
8198 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
8199 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
8200 the right test for positive values.
8202 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
8203 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
8204 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
8205 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
8206 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
8207 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
8208 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
8209 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
8210 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
8211 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
8214 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
8217 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
8218 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8221 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8222 the existing equality matching.
8224 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8225 dealing with inode numbers.
8227 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8228 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8229 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8231 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8232 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8233 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8234 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8237 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8238 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8239 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8240 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8241 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8242 relay addresses has also been removed.
8244 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8246 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8247 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8248 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8250 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8251 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8252 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8253 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8254 processing applies to CR:
8256 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8257 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8259 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8260 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8261 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8262 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8264 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8265 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8266 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8268 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8269 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8270 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8271 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8272 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8273 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8276 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8279 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8280 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8281 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8282 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8285 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8287 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8289 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8291 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8292 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8293 not considered personal.
8295 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8297 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8299 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8301 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8302 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8303 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8304 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8305 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8306 header lines, and spool format errors.
8308 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8309 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8310 for more flexibility.
8312 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8313 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8314 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8316 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8319 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8320 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8321 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8322 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8323 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8324 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8325 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8326 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8327 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8329 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8330 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8331 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8332 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8333 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8334 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8335 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8337 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8338 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8339 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8341 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8342 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8343 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8344 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8345 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8346 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8347 instead of killing the process with assert().
8349 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8350 than Unicode encoding.
8352 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8353 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8354 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8355 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8357 77. Added process_log_path.
8359 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8360 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8362 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8363 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8365 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8366 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8367 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8369 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8370 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8371 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8372 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8373 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8376 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8377 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8380 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8381 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8382 they will be used during message reception.
8388 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.