1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
8 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique messmage IDs) from
9 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
10 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
13 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
14 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
16 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
17 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
18 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
19 not be modified by local-scan code.
21 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
22 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
24 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
25 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
28 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
29 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
35 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
36 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
37 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
39 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
40 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
41 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
42 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
44 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
45 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
46 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
47 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
48 so could be handling tainted values.
50 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
51 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
52 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
54 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
55 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
56 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
59 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
60 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
61 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
62 to align better with RFC 6125.
64 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
65 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
66 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
67 by adding a release action in that path.
69 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
70 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
71 dynamically-created buffers.
73 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
74 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
75 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
76 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
78 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
79 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
80 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
81 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
83 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
84 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
85 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
87 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
88 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
89 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
90 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
92 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
93 excluded, not matching the documentation.
95 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
96 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
98 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
99 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
100 this was a coding error.
102 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
103 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
104 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
105 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
106 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
107 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
108 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
110 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
111 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
112 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
113 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
115 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
116 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
117 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
118 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
119 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
121 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
122 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
125 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
126 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
127 domain-parking registrar.
129 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
130 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
131 after removing the newline.
133 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
134 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
135 option set, which was previously used.
137 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
140 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
141 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
142 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
143 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
145 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
146 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
147 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
148 exim.dev.20160529.3).
150 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
151 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
152 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
154 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
155 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
156 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
159 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
160 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
161 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
163 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
164 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
165 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
166 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
169 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
170 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
171 there, handle PRX and TFO.
173 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
174 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
175 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
176 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
177 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
179 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
180 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
181 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
182 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
185 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
186 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
188 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
191 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
192 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
193 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
194 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
195 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
197 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
199 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
200 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
201 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
202 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
203 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
204 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
206 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
207 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
209 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
210 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
211 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
213 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
214 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
217 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
218 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
219 of a new variable: $auth4.
221 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
222 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
223 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
224 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
225 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
227 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
228 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
229 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
230 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
232 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
233 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
234 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
236 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
237 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
238 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
239 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
242 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
243 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
244 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
247 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
248 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
249 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
250 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
252 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
253 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
255 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
256 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
257 looked as if if might be one.
259 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
260 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
261 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
262 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
263 messages can show the proxy information.
265 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
266 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
267 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
268 "queue_time_exclusive".
270 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
271 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
272 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
274 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
275 making it unusable in complex expressions.
277 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
278 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
281 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
283 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
285 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
287 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
288 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
289 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
290 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
292 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
293 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
295 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
296 better. Reported by Qualys.
298 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
299 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
302 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
304 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
307 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
309 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
310 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
311 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
312 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
314 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
315 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
317 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
318 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
319 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
320 mode until after various protocol state checks.
321 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
323 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
325 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
326 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
328 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
331 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
332 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
333 executed child processes (if any).
335 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
338 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
339 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
340 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
341 been reported on other platforms.
343 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
345 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
346 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
347 Not supported on Solaris 10.
349 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
350 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
351 since fakereject was originally introduced.
353 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
354 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
356 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
357 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
358 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
361 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
362 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
363 which only permit IP addresses.
369 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
370 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
371 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
373 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
375 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
376 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
379 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
380 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
381 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
383 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
385 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
387 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
388 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
389 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
391 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
392 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
393 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
395 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
396 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
398 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
399 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
402 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
403 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
404 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
405 should both provide the file and set the option.
406 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
408 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
409 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
411 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
412 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
413 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
414 Authentication-Results: header.
416 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
417 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
418 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
419 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
421 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
422 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
423 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
424 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
425 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
426 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
427 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
429 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
430 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
431 copies while it is still usable.
433 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
434 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
435 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
437 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
438 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
440 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
441 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
442 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
443 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
445 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
446 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
447 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
450 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
451 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
452 - the pipe transport command
453 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
454 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
456 - paths used by single-key lookups
457 Previously this was permitted.
459 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
460 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
461 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
462 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
464 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
465 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
466 support larger malloc requests.
468 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
469 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
470 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
471 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
473 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
474 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
475 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
476 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
479 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
480 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
481 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
482 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
483 data being length-specified.
485 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
486 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
487 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
488 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
490 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
491 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
492 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
493 not being properly tracked.
495 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
496 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
497 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
498 minute could be seen.
500 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
501 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
502 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
504 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
505 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
507 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
508 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
511 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
513 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
514 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
516 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
517 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
518 filesystem as sufficient validation.
520 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
521 argument is supplied.
523 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
524 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
525 access under Exim's current working directory.
527 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
528 Previously no event was raised.
530 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
531 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
532 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
535 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
536 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
537 the size of the signature hash.
539 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
540 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
542 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
543 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
544 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
545 dropped between messages.
547 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
548 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
549 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
550 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
552 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
553 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
554 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
555 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
556 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
557 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
558 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
559 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
560 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
562 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
563 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
564 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
566 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
567 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
574 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
575 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
577 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
578 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
581 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
584 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
586 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
588 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
589 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
591 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
592 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
593 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
594 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
595 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
596 suitably configured).
598 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
599 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
601 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
602 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
605 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
606 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
608 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
609 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
610 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
611 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
614 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
615 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
616 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
618 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
621 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
622 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
624 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
625 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
626 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
627 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
630 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
631 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
632 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
633 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
636 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
637 shared (NFS) environment.
639 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
640 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
643 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
644 on some platforms for bit 31.
646 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
647 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
648 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
649 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
650 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
651 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
652 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
653 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
655 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
657 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
658 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
660 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
661 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
664 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
665 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
668 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
669 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
670 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
673 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
674 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
675 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
677 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
678 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
679 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
680 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
681 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
683 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
686 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
687 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
688 be requested on all coneections.
690 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
691 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
693 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
695 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
696 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
697 one for these; the option was ignored.
699 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
700 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
701 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
702 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
704 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
705 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
706 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
709 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
710 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
711 error ignored was made.
713 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
715 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
716 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
717 values, to catch one form of exploit.
719 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
720 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
721 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
723 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
724 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
727 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
728 them in our smtp response.
730 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
731 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
732 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
733 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
734 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
736 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
737 link count into consideration.
739 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
740 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
742 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
743 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
744 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
747 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
749 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
751 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
753 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
754 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
755 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
756 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
758 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
760 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
761 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
764 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
765 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
766 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
768 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
769 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
770 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
772 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
773 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
774 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
775 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
776 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
777 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
778 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
779 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
781 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
782 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
783 resulted in an indefinite loop.
785 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
786 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
787 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
793 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
794 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
796 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
797 non-signal-safe functions being used.
799 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
800 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
801 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
803 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
804 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
805 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
807 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
808 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
809 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
810 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
811 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
814 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
815 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
817 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
818 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
819 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
820 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
821 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
822 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
823 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
825 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
826 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
828 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
831 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
832 Previously this would segfault.
834 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
837 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
838 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
839 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
840 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
841 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
842 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
844 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
846 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
847 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
848 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
849 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
851 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
853 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
854 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
855 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
856 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
858 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
860 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
862 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
863 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
864 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
866 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
867 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
868 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
870 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
872 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
873 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
874 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
875 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
877 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
878 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
879 promised '?' replacement.
881 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
883 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
884 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
885 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
886 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
887 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
889 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
890 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
891 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
893 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
894 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
895 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
897 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
898 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
899 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
901 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
902 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
903 hope that is portable enough.
905 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
906 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
907 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
908 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
910 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
911 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
912 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
914 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
915 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
916 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
917 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
919 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
920 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
922 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
923 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
924 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
925 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
927 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
928 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
929 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
931 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
932 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
933 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
934 the previous G, M, k.
936 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
937 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
940 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
941 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
942 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
943 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
945 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
946 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
948 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
949 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
950 off past the nul-terimation.
952 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
953 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
954 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
955 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
956 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
958 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
960 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
961 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
962 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
965 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
966 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
968 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
969 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
970 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
972 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
973 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
974 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
976 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
977 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
983 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
984 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
985 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
986 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
987 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
988 be defined in redis_servers.
990 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
991 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
993 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
994 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
995 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
996 extant use locations.
998 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
999 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1001 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1002 Previously only the last row was returned.
1004 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1005 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1006 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1007 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1010 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1011 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1012 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1013 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1014 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1015 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1016 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1017 Main pool for expansions.
1018 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1019 active in the testsuite.
1020 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1022 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1023 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1024 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1025 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1028 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1029 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1032 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1033 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1034 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1036 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1037 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1038 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1040 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1041 rows affected is given instead).
1043 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1044 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1046 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1047 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1048 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1049 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1050 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1052 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1053 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1054 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1056 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1057 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1058 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1059 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1062 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1063 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1064 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1067 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1069 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1070 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1072 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1073 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1074 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1076 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1077 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1078 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1081 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1082 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1084 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1085 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1086 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1088 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1089 for the build is renamed.
1091 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1092 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1093 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1095 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1096 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1097 result replacing the original.
1099 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1100 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1101 and the resources needed to be freed.
1103 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1105 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1108 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1109 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1110 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1111 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1113 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1114 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1116 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1117 newer versions of the scanner.
1119 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1120 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1121 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1122 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1123 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1124 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1125 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1127 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1128 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1129 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1130 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1131 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1132 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1133 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1134 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1135 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1136 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1138 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1139 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1141 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1143 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1144 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1146 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1147 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1149 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1150 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1151 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1153 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1154 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1155 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1156 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1158 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1159 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1162 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1163 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1165 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1166 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1167 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1168 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1169 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1171 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1172 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1175 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1176 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1178 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1181 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1182 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1183 "bare" representation.
1185 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1186 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1187 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1188 corrupted the output.
1194 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1195 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1196 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1197 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1199 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1200 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1202 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1203 This permits better logging.
1205 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1206 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1207 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1208 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1209 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1210 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1212 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1213 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1216 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1217 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1218 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1220 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1221 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1223 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1224 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1225 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1226 client, there is no benefit for these.
1227 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1228 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1229 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1232 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1233 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1235 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1236 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1237 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1239 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1240 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1242 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1243 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1244 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1245 signature and again for transmission.
1247 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1248 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1249 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1251 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1252 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1253 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1254 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1255 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1256 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1257 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1259 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1260 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1261 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1262 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1264 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1265 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1266 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1267 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1268 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1269 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1272 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1273 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1274 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1275 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1278 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1279 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1280 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1281 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1284 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1285 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1288 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1289 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1290 banner-time rejection.
1292 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1295 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1296 is the name of a transport.
1299 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1301 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1302 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1304 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1305 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1306 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1309 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1310 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1311 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1312 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1314 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1315 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1316 initial verify call returned a defer.
1318 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1319 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1321 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1322 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1324 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1325 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1327 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1328 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1330 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1331 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1334 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1335 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1337 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1338 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1339 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1341 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1342 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1343 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1344 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1346 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1347 and confused the parent.
1349 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1350 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1352 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1355 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1356 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1357 out-of-order delivery.
1359 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1360 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1361 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1364 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1365 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1368 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1369 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1370 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1372 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1373 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1374 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1375 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1376 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1377 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1379 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1380 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1381 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1383 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1384 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1385 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1387 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1388 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1389 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1390 though a different problem.
1396 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1397 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1399 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1401 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1402 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1404 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1405 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1407 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1408 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1409 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1410 before acknowledging the chunk.
1412 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1413 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1414 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1416 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1417 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1418 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1421 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1422 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1423 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1425 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1426 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1428 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1429 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1430 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1431 body hash calculated value.
1433 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1434 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1435 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1437 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1439 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1440 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1442 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1443 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1444 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1446 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1447 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1448 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1449 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1450 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1451 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1453 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1454 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1455 past that check, despite the cost.
1457 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1458 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1459 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1461 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1462 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1463 TLS library to consume.
1465 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1467 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1469 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1470 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1471 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1472 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1473 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1474 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1475 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1477 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1479 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1481 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1482 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1483 should be warning-free.
1485 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1487 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1488 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1490 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1491 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1492 general solution here.
1494 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1495 already-broken messages in the queue.
1497 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1499 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1505 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1506 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1508 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1509 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1510 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1512 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1513 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1514 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1515 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1516 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1517 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1518 if one fails this test.
1519 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1520 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1522 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1523 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1525 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1526 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1528 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1529 in rewrites and routers.
1531 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1532 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1534 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1535 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1537 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1539 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1542 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1543 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1544 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1545 connection after a verify cache hit.
1546 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1548 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1549 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1551 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1552 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1553 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1554 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1555 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1557 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1558 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1560 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1561 Previously they were not counted.
1563 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1564 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1565 that needed the lookup.
1567 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1568 distinguished as "(=".
1570 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1571 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1573 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1575 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1576 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1578 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1579 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1581 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1582 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1585 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1586 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1587 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1588 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1590 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1592 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1593 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1594 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1596 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1597 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1598 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1601 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1602 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1603 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1606 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1607 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1608 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1610 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1611 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1614 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1616 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1617 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1619 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1620 are not in the system include path.
1622 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1623 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1624 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1625 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1627 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1628 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1629 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1631 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1633 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1634 an incoming connection.
1636 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1639 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1640 fallback to "prime256v1".
1642 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1643 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1649 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1650 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1651 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1652 client dropping the TLS connection.
1654 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1655 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1657 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1658 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1659 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1660 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1663 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1664 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1665 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1666 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1667 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1668 check on the next write.
1670 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1671 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1672 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1673 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1674 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1676 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1677 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1679 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1680 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1681 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1683 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1684 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1685 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1686 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1688 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1689 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1691 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1692 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1694 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1695 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1696 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1699 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1701 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1703 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1705 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1706 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1708 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1709 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1711 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1713 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1714 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1716 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1718 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1719 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1721 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1723 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1724 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1725 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1726 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1727 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1728 they will retry in-clear.
1729 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1730 at installation time.
1732 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1733 with the $config_file variable.
1735 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1736 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1737 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1738 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1739 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1741 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1742 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1743 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1744 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1745 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1747 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1749 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1750 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1751 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1752 list order is no longer honoured.
1754 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1755 for DKIM processing.
1757 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1758 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1760 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1761 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1762 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1763 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1765 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1766 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1768 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1769 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1771 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1772 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1774 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1776 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1777 cached by the daemon.
1779 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1780 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1782 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1783 keys are given for lookup.
1785 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1786 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1787 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1788 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1790 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1791 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1792 server-side so match that on older versions.
1794 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1795 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1796 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1798 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1799 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1801 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1802 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1803 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1804 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1805 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1806 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1807 initial truncated version.
1809 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1811 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1813 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1814 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1816 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1818 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1820 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1821 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1824 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1825 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1828 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1829 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1831 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1832 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1835 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1836 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1837 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1839 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1840 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1841 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1842 extraction. Accept either.
1848 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1851 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1853 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1856 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1857 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1858 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1859 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1861 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1862 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1863 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1865 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1866 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1867 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1870 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1873 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1874 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1875 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1876 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1877 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1879 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1880 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1881 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1883 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1885 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1886 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1888 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1889 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1891 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1894 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1895 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1897 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1898 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1899 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1901 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1902 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1903 specify a port-range.
1905 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1906 timeout value per server.
1908 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1909 now have the list separator specified.
1911 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1914 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1917 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1919 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1920 rather than the verbs used.
1922 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1923 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1925 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1927 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1928 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1930 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1931 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1933 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1934 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1936 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1938 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1940 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1941 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1942 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1943 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1945 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1947 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1948 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1950 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1951 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1953 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1955 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1957 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1959 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1960 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1962 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1963 added for tls authenticator.
1965 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1971 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1972 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1973 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1974 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1975 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1976 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1977 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1979 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1980 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1981 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1982 function when detected.
1984 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1985 cause callback expansion.
1987 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1988 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1989 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1990 instead of bool when processing it.
1992 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1993 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1995 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1997 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1999 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2001 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2002 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2004 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2005 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2006 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2007 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2008 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2009 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2011 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2012 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2015 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2016 version 3.3.6 or later.
2018 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2019 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2020 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2021 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2022 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2023 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2026 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2027 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2029 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2030 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2031 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2034 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2035 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2036 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2038 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2039 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2041 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2042 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2045 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2047 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2048 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2050 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2051 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2054 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2056 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2059 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2060 output list separator was used.
2065 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2066 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2069 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2070 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2072 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2074 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2075 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2081 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2083 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2084 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2085 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2086 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2087 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2088 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2090 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2091 utilities have not been installed.
2093 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2094 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2096 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2097 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2099 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2100 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2101 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2102 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2104 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2106 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2107 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2109 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2112 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2114 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2115 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2116 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2118 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2119 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2120 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2121 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2122 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2123 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2125 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2127 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2128 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2130 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2133 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2135 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2137 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2138 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2140 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2141 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2143 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2145 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2147 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2148 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2150 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2151 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2152 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2154 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2155 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2156 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2159 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2161 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2162 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2165 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2166 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2169 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2170 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2172 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2173 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2175 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2177 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2178 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2179 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2181 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2182 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2184 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2185 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2188 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2189 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2190 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2192 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2194 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2195 Christian Aistleitner.
2197 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2199 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2200 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2202 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2203 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2205 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2206 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2208 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2209 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2211 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2212 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2214 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2215 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2216 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2218 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2220 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2221 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2224 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2226 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2227 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2234 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2236 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2237 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2239 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2242 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2243 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2246 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2248 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2249 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2250 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2251 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2252 using channel bindings instead).
2254 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2255 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2256 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2257 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2258 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2261 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2263 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2265 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2266 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2268 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2269 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2270 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2272 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2274 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2276 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2277 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2279 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2281 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2283 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2285 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2286 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2288 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2290 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2291 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2294 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2295 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2297 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2298 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2301 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2303 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2305 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2306 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2308 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2311 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2312 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2314 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2315 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2317 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2319 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2321 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2324 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2327 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2329 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2330 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2331 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2332 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2334 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2336 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2337 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2338 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2339 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2342 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2343 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2344 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2346 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2347 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2348 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2349 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2351 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2352 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2353 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2354 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2355 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2356 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2357 delivery, as in LMTP.
2359 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2360 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2362 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2364 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2368 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2369 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2370 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2371 username as equal to the username.
2373 This change corrects that bug.
2375 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2376 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2377 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2379 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2381 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2382 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2383 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2384 NULL dereference and crash.
2386 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2388 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2389 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2390 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2392 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2394 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2395 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2396 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2397 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2398 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2399 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2400 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2401 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2402 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2403 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2404 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2406 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2407 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2409 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2410 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2413 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2414 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2415 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2416 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2417 an empty string is now equivalent.
2419 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2420 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2421 not performing validation itself.
2423 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2424 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2426 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2429 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2431 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2432 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2433 other false fix of the same issue.
2434 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2437 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2438 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2440 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2441 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2442 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2444 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2445 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2446 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2448 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2450 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2452 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2453 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2455 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2458 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2459 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2460 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2461 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2462 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2464 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2465 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2467 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2468 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2471 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2472 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2473 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2474 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2476 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2478 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2479 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2480 from multiple comments on this bug.
2482 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2484 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2485 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2488 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2489 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2491 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2492 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2498 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2500 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2506 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2507 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2508 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2510 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2512 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2515 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2517 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2519 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2521 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2522 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2524 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2525 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2527 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2528 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2530 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2531 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2532 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2534 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2536 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2537 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2539 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2541 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2543 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2544 non-compliant senders.
2545 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2547 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2548 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2549 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2551 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2552 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2553 in spool file corruption.
2555 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2556 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2557 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2560 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2561 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2562 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2564 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2565 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2567 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2569 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2571 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2573 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2574 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2575 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2577 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2578 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2579 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2580 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2582 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2583 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2585 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2586 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2587 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2588 resolver implementation change.
2590 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2591 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2593 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2595 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2597 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2598 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2600 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2601 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2603 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2604 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2606 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2607 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2608 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2609 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2610 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2612 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2614 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2615 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2616 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2618 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2620 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2621 read-only, out of scope).
2622 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2624 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2625 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2626 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2627 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2629 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2631 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2632 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2633 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2634 real issues in debug logging.
2636 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2637 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2639 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2640 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2641 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2643 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2644 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2645 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2648 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2649 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2651 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2652 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2653 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2654 needs to override this, it can.
2656 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2657 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2658 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2660 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2661 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2662 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2663 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2665 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2671 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2672 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2674 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2676 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2679 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2680 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2682 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2683 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2684 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2686 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2687 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2688 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2689 not safe for signals.
2691 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2692 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2693 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2694 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2697 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2699 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2700 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2701 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2702 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2703 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2705 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2706 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2707 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2708 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2709 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2710 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2712 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2713 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2714 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2715 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2717 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2718 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2719 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2720 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2722 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2723 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2724 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2725 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2726 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2727 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2728 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2729 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2730 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2732 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2733 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2734 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2735 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2737 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2738 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2739 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2740 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2741 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2742 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2743 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2744 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2745 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2746 details in the main documentation.
2748 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2750 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2752 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2753 repository when doing development or release builds.
2755 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2756 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2758 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2759 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2762 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2764 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2765 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2767 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2768 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2770 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2771 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2773 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2774 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2776 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2777 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2779 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2781 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2784 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2785 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2786 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2788 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2790 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2792 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2793 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2799 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2801 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2802 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2804 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2806 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2808 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2811 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2812 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2814 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2815 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2817 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2818 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2820 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2823 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2824 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2826 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2827 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2828 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2829 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2831 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2832 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2838 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2841 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2842 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2843 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2845 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2846 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2848 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2849 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2850 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2852 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2853 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2855 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2856 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2858 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2859 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2861 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2862 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2864 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2865 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2867 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2870 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2871 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2873 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2874 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2876 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2877 SQL string expansion failure details.
2878 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2880 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2881 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2883 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2884 extern declarations in function scope.
2885 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2887 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2888 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2889 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2892 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2893 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2895 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2896 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2898 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2899 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2901 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2902 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2904 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2905 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2908 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2910 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2912 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2913 Patch by Simon Arlott
2915 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2916 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2922 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2923 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2925 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2926 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2928 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2930 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2931 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2932 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2934 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2935 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2936 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2938 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2939 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2940 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2941 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2943 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2944 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2945 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2946 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2948 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2949 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2950 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2953 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2956 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2957 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2958 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2959 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2960 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2966 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2967 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2968 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2970 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2971 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2973 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2975 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2977 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2979 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2981 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2983 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2984 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2985 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2986 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2988 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2989 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2990 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2991 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2992 more caution in buffer sizes.
2994 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2996 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2998 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3000 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3002 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3004 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3006 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3008 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3009 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3010 ignore trailing whitespace.
3012 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3014 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3017 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3018 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3020 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3021 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3022 Notification from John Horne.
3024 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3027 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3028 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3031 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3034 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3035 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3036 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3038 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3039 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3040 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3043 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3044 option (effectively making it always true).
3046 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3047 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3049 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3050 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3052 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3053 run-time user, instead of root.
3055 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3056 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3058 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3059 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3062 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3063 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3064 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3066 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3068 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3074 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3075 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3078 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3079 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3082 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3083 Patch from Alain Williams
3085 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3087 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3088 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3090 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3091 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3093 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3095 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3097 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3098 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3100 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3102 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3104 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3105 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3106 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3108 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3109 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3111 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3112 Patch by Simon Arlott
3114 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3115 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3121 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3123 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3125 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3127 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3129 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3135 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3136 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3138 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3139 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3142 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3143 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3144 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3146 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3147 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3149 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3150 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3151 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3152 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3154 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3155 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3156 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3158 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3160 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3162 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3163 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3165 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3167 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3168 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3169 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3170 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3172 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3173 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3175 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3177 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3179 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3180 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3182 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3183 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3185 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3186 that they are available at delivery time.
3188 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3190 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3191 incoming_port log selectors.
3193 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3194 setting expands to an empty string.
3196 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3197 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3199 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3200 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3202 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3203 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3205 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3206 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3208 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3209 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3211 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3212 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3214 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3216 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3217 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3219 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3220 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3222 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3224 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3225 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3227 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3229 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3231 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3234 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3235 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3237 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3238 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3240 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3241 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3243 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3244 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3246 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3247 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3249 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3250 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3252 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3253 plus update to original patch.
3255 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3257 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3258 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3260 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3262 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3264 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3266 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3268 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3269 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3271 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3272 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3274 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3275 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3277 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3278 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3280 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3282 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3284 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3286 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3292 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3293 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3294 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3296 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3297 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3298 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3299 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3300 build errors in sieve.c.
3302 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3303 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3304 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3306 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3308 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3310 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3312 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3318 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3320 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3321 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3322 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3323 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3324 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3325 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3326 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3327 for iplsearch lookups.
3329 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3330 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3331 previously such lookups could never work.
3333 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3334 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3335 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3337 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3340 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3341 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3342 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3343 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3344 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3345 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3347 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3348 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3350 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3351 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3352 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3353 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3354 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3355 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3357 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3360 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3362 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3363 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3366 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3367 by clients under certain conditions.
3369 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3370 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3372 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3374 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3375 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3377 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3379 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3381 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3383 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3384 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3386 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3388 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3389 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3391 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3393 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3395 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3396 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3397 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3398 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3400 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3401 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3402 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3404 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3405 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3407 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3409 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3411 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3413 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3414 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3415 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3421 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3422 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3425 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3426 issue a MAIL command.
3428 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3430 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3432 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3433 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3434 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3435 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3436 item. This has been fixed.
3438 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3439 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3441 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3442 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3444 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3445 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3446 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3448 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3450 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3451 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3452 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3453 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3454 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3456 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3457 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3458 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3460 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3461 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3462 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3463 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3465 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3467 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3469 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3470 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3471 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3472 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3473 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3475 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3477 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3478 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3479 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3482 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3484 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3486 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3488 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3490 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3492 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3493 no_callout_flush is set.
3495 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3496 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3497 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3500 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3502 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3503 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3504 other ACL rejections are.
3506 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3507 with slight modification.
3509 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3510 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3512 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3513 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3516 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3517 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3519 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3521 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3522 expansion side effects.
3524 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3525 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3526 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3529 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3530 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3531 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3533 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3534 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3535 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3536 were accidentally chopped off.
3538 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3539 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3540 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3541 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3542 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3543 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3544 pipelining has not been advertised.
3546 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3548 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3549 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3550 This has been fixed.
3552 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3553 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3554 reported on Solaris.
3556 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3557 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3558 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3559 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3560 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3561 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3562 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3564 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3567 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3569 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3571 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3572 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3573 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3574 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3575 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3576 criteria to be more general.
3578 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3579 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3580 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3581 host_all_ignored option.
3583 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3584 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3585 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3586 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3587 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3588 is what is supposed to happen).
3590 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3591 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3592 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3593 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3594 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3597 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3598 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3599 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3600 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3601 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3602 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3605 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3607 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3608 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3610 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3611 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3613 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3615 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3617 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3618 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3619 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3620 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3621 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3622 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3623 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3624 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3625 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3626 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3627 least in a lot of common cases.
3629 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3630 advertised in response to EHLO.
3636 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3637 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3639 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3640 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3642 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3643 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3644 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3646 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3647 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3648 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3649 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3650 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3656 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3657 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3660 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3661 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3662 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3664 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3665 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3666 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3667 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3668 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3669 rather than extend the field.
3675 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3676 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3677 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3678 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3681 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3682 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3683 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3685 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3686 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3687 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3689 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3690 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3691 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3694 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3695 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3696 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3697 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3698 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3699 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3700 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3701 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3702 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3703 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3704 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3706 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3709 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3710 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3711 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3712 ignores EPIPE as well.
3714 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3715 (quoted-printable decoding).
3717 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3718 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3720 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3722 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3724 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3726 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3727 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3729 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3732 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3733 miscellaneous code fixes
3735 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3738 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3739 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3740 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3741 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3742 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3743 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3744 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3745 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3747 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3748 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3749 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3750 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3752 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3753 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3754 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3755 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3756 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3757 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3758 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3759 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3760 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3762 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3765 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3766 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3767 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3768 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3769 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3770 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3771 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3772 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3774 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3775 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3778 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3779 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3780 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3781 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3782 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3783 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3784 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3785 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3786 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3787 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3788 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3789 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3790 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3792 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3793 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3794 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3795 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3796 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3797 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3798 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3800 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3801 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3802 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3803 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3804 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3805 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3806 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3807 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3808 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3809 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3811 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3812 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3813 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3814 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3815 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3817 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3818 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3819 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3820 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3821 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3822 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3823 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3825 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3826 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3827 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3828 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3829 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3830 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3833 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3834 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3835 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3838 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3839 if any retry times were supplied.
3841 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3842 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3843 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3845 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3847 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3849 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3850 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3851 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3852 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3853 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3854 before) are ignored.
3856 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3857 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3859 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3860 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3861 committing the later change.]
3863 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3864 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3865 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3866 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3867 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3868 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3869 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3870 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3871 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3873 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3874 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3875 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3876 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3877 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3878 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3879 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3880 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3881 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3883 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3884 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3885 hammering the server.
3887 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3888 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3890 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3892 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3893 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3894 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3896 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3897 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3898 one case where this was not true.
3900 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3901 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3902 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3903 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3906 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3907 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3908 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3909 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3910 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3911 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3912 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3913 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3914 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3917 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3918 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3919 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3920 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3922 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3923 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3925 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3926 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3927 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3929 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3931 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3933 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3935 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3936 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3937 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3938 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3940 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3941 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3943 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3944 be meaningful with "accept".
3946 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3947 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3949 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3950 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3951 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3953 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3954 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3955 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3956 there is data to show.
3957 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3959 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3960 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3961 as well as the number of messages.
3963 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3964 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3965 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3967 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3968 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3969 have a flag are now skipped.
3971 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3972 Added the -emptyok flag.
3974 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3975 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3977 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3978 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3979 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3981 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3984 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3985 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3987 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3989 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3990 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3992 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3994 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3995 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3996 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3997 contravention of the specifications.
3999 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4000 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4001 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4003 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4004 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4005 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4007 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4009 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4010 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4011 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4012 some point in the past.
4014 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4015 transport during callout processing was broken.
4017 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4018 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4020 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4021 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4023 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4024 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4026 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4032 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4033 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4035 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4036 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4037 there is data to show.
4038 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4040 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4041 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4043 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4044 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4046 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4047 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4049 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4050 submissions from trusted users.
4052 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4053 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4055 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4056 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4057 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4058 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4059 there is now a framework to start from.
4061 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4062 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4063 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4065 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4067 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4069 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4071 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4072 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4073 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4075 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4078 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4079 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4080 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4082 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4083 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4084 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4087 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4088 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4089 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4090 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4091 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4093 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4094 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4096 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4098 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4099 operations in malware.c.
4101 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4104 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4105 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4106 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4109 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4110 statements to "add_header".
4112 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4113 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4115 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4116 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4119 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4123 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4124 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4125 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4128 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4129 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4131 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4132 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4134 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4135 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4136 any possible encoding problems.
4138 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4139 but not after initializing Perl.
4141 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4142 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4143 apparently, which is not desirable.
4145 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4148 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4151 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4153 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4154 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4155 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4156 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4158 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4159 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4160 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4162 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4163 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4164 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4167 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4168 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4169 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4170 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4171 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4177 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4178 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4180 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4183 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4184 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4185 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4186 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4187 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4188 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4189 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4190 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4193 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4195 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4196 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4197 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4199 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4200 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4201 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4204 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4205 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4207 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4208 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4209 option (which defaults to 0600).
4211 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4213 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4214 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4215 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4216 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4217 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4218 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4219 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4221 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4227 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4228 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4229 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4230 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4231 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4232 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4235 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4236 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4238 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4240 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4241 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4242 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4243 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4244 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4247 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4248 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4250 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4251 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4252 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4253 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4254 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4256 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4257 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4258 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4259 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4261 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4262 be the same on different OS.
4264 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4267 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4268 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4270 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4273 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4274 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4275 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4276 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4277 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4278 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4281 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4282 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4283 when Exim was called.
4285 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4286 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4288 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4289 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4290 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4291 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4293 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4294 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4295 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4296 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4299 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4300 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4301 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4303 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4304 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4305 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4307 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4310 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4311 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4312 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4313 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4314 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4315 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4316 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4317 values from the SRV records were lost.
4319 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4320 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4321 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4323 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4324 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4325 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4327 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4328 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4329 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4330 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4331 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4332 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4333 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4334 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4335 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4336 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4338 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4339 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4340 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4342 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4343 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4345 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4346 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4347 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4348 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4351 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4352 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4353 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4355 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4356 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4357 PH/23 above applies.
4359 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4360 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4361 (for which there is an explicit test).
4363 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4365 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4366 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4367 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4368 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4369 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4371 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4372 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4373 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4374 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4376 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4377 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4378 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4380 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4382 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4384 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4385 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4386 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4388 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4389 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4390 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4391 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4392 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4394 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4395 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4396 the message gets confusing).
4398 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4399 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4400 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4401 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4403 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4404 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4405 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4406 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4409 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4410 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4411 the different processes.
4413 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4415 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4417 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4418 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4420 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4421 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4423 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4424 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4425 messages matching specified criteria.
4427 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4429 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4430 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4432 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4433 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4434 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4435 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4436 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4437 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4438 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4439 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4440 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4441 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4443 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4444 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4445 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4447 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4449 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4450 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4451 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4452 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4453 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4454 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4455 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4458 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4459 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4461 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4463 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4465 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4467 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4468 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4469 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4470 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4471 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4472 size of the count of files.
4474 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4476 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4479 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4480 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4481 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4482 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4484 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4485 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4486 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4488 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4489 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4490 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4491 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4492 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4494 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4495 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4497 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4498 will now be deprecated.
4500 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4502 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4503 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4504 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4506 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4507 with very large, slow to parse queues
4509 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4511 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4513 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4514 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4515 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4518 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4519 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4520 Sieve code now uses this.
4522 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4523 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4525 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4526 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4528 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4530 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4531 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4532 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4533 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4534 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4536 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4537 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4538 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4539 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4541 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4543 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4545 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4546 is preferred over IPv4.
4548 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4549 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4550 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4551 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4552 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4553 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4554 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4556 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4557 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4558 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4560 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4562 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4563 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4564 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4565 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4566 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4567 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4568 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4569 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4570 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4571 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4572 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4574 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4575 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4576 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4582 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4584 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4585 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4587 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4588 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4589 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4591 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4593 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4596 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4599 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4600 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4601 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4604 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4605 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4607 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4608 inside the third argument.
4610 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4611 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4614 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4615 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4617 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4618 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4620 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4622 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4623 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4626 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4628 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4629 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4630 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4631 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4632 identical. For example:
4634 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4636 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4637 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4638 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4640 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4641 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4642 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4643 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4645 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4646 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4647 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4650 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4652 o fixes some comments
4653 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4654 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4655 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4656 and documents the missing references header update
4660 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4661 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4664 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4665 Electronic Mail") by including:
4667 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4669 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4670 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4671 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4672 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4673 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4675 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4677 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4679 The auto-replied keyword:
4681 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4682 message by an automatic process,
4684 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4686 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4687 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4689 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4690 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4693 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4694 to the default Received: header definition.
4696 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4698 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4699 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4700 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4702 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4703 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4704 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4706 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4707 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4708 and treats the condition as false.
4710 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4712 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4713 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4714 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4715 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4716 not changing the active code.
4718 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4719 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4721 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4722 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4724 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4727 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4728 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4729 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4730 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4731 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4732 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4733 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4734 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4735 the text comparison.
4737 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4738 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4739 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4740 The same fix has been applied.
4746 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4747 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4750 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4751 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4753 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4755 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4756 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4757 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4758 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4759 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4761 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4762 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4763 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4764 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4767 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4775 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4776 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4778 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4780 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4782 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4783 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4784 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4786 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4787 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4788 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4790 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4791 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4794 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4795 ${stat: expansion item.
4797 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4798 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4800 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4801 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4804 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4806 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4809 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4810 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4812 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4814 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4815 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4816 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4817 the end of the subprocess.
4819 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4820 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4821 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4822 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4823 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4825 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4827 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4829 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4830 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4832 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4834 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4836 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4837 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4840 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4842 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4843 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4844 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4846 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4847 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4849 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4850 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4852 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4853 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4855 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4856 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4858 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4859 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4860 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4861 contributed by a Radius user.
4863 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4864 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4866 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4867 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4869 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4872 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4873 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4876 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4877 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4878 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4879 header lines when this was not necessary.
4881 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4883 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4884 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4885 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4888 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4891 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4892 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4893 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4894 return code was incorrect.
4896 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4898 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4900 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4902 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4904 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4905 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4906 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4907 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4908 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4911 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4913 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4914 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4915 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4916 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4917 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4918 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4919 which is clearly wrong.
4921 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4923 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4924 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4925 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4928 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4929 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4931 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4933 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4934 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4936 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4937 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4939 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4940 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4942 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4943 recipients, not senders.
4945 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4946 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4948 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4950 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4952 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4953 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4954 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4955 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4957 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4959 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4960 clock is set back in time.
4962 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4963 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4965 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4966 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4968 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4969 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4972 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4973 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4976 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4979 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4981 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4982 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4983 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4985 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4986 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4987 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4988 helo verification defer as a failure.
4990 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4991 actual error message.
4997 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4999 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5000 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5001 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5002 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5004 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5006 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5007 can still be requested.
5009 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5010 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5011 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5012 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5014 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5015 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5016 circumstances, but probably never did.
5018 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5019 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5020 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5023 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5025 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5026 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5028 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5030 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5032 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5033 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5034 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5035 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5036 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5037 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5039 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5040 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5041 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5042 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5043 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5044 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5046 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5047 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5049 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5050 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5052 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5053 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5055 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5057 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5059 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5061 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5063 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5065 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5067 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5069 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5070 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5071 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5073 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5074 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5075 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5076 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5078 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5079 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5080 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5082 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5083 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5084 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5085 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5087 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5088 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5091 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5092 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5093 should work with maildirs and everything.
5095 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5096 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5098 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5101 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5102 function for BDB 4.3.
5104 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5106 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5107 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5110 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5111 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5112 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5113 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5114 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5115 formatting function string_vformat().
5117 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5118 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5119 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5120 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5121 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5122 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5123 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5124 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5126 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5127 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5130 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5131 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5133 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5134 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5135 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5136 test. It is now used for both.
5138 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5139 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5140 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5141 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5142 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5143 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5145 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5146 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5147 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5150 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5151 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5152 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5154 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5155 experimental DomainKeys support:
5157 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5158 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5159 the control was given.
5161 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5163 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5165 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5167 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5168 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5169 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5172 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5173 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5174 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5175 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5176 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5177 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5180 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5181 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5182 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5183 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5184 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5185 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5187 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5188 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5189 do -d+all out of habit.
5191 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5192 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5195 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5196 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5197 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5198 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5199 record types that Exim uses.
5201 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5202 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5203 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5204 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5205 non-existent file that was broken.
5207 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5208 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5210 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5211 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5212 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5214 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5216 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5217 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5218 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5219 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5220 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5223 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5224 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5225 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5226 at a slight CPU cost.
5228 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5229 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5231 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5234 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5236 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5237 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5243 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5244 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5246 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5248 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5250 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5251 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5253 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5254 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5255 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5256 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5257 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5258 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5261 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5262 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5263 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5264 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5267 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5268 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5269 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5270 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5271 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5272 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5273 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5276 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5277 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5279 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5280 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5281 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5282 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5283 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5284 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5286 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5287 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5288 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5289 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5291 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5294 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5295 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5297 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5298 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5299 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5300 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5303 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5305 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5306 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5308 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5309 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5310 to what was transported.)
5312 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5314 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5315 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5316 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5317 spamd_address settings.
5319 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5320 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5321 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5322 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5323 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5325 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5327 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5328 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5329 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5330 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5331 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5333 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5334 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5336 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5337 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5338 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5339 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5340 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5341 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5342 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5345 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5346 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5347 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5348 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5349 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5350 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5351 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5354 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5356 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5357 driver and ACL definitions.
5359 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5360 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5362 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5363 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5364 understands it better than I do:
5366 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5367 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5369 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5370 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5371 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5372 => three warnings about OTP not working
5373 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5375 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5376 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5377 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5378 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5380 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5381 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5383 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5384 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5385 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5387 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5388 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5391 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5392 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5395 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5396 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5397 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5399 warn !verify = sender
5400 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5402 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5403 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5405 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5407 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5408 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5410 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5411 nomenclature these days.)
5413 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5414 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5416 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5417 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5418 . First host does not offer TLS;
5419 . First host accepts first address;
5420 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5421 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5422 . Second host accepts second address.
5423 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5424 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5427 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5428 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5429 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5430 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5431 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5433 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5434 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5436 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5437 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5439 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5440 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5441 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5443 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5444 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5447 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5449 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5450 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5451 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5452 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5453 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5454 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5455 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5457 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5458 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5459 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5460 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5461 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5463 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5464 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5467 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5468 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5469 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5470 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5471 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5472 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5474 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5476 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5477 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5478 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5479 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5480 printable escape sequences.
5482 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5483 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5486 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5487 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5490 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5491 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5492 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5493 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5494 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5496 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5497 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5498 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5500 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5502 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5503 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5506 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5507 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5508 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5509 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5510 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5511 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5512 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5513 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5514 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5517 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5518 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5519 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5520 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5524 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5525 ----------------------------------------
5527 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5528 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5529 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5530 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5531 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5532 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5535 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5536 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5537 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5538 historical information.
5544 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5546 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5547 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5549 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5550 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5553 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5554 filter fails to execute.
5556 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5557 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5558 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5559 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5560 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5562 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5564 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5565 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5566 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5567 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5569 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5570 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5571 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5572 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5573 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5575 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5577 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5579 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5580 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5581 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5582 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5584 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5585 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5586 sender verification.
5588 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5589 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5591 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5593 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5596 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5597 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5599 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5600 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5602 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5603 information about exactly what failed.
5605 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5607 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5608 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5609 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5611 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5612 It is now set to "smtps".
5614 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5615 ignore_target_hosts.
5617 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5618 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5619 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5620 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5623 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5624 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5625 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5627 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5628 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5629 wake it up if nothing else does.
5631 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5632 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5633 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5636 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5637 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5639 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5641 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5642 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5643 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5644 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5645 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5646 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5647 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5648 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5650 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5651 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5652 than one IP address.
5654 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5655 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5656 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5657 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5659 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5660 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5661 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5662 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5663 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5666 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5667 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5668 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5669 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5671 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5672 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5675 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5676 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5677 $sender_host_address.
5679 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5680 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5681 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5682 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5683 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5686 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5688 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5689 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5691 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5692 just the host names, not the priorities.
5694 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5695 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5696 controlled by a keyword.
5698 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5699 multiple records are returned.
5701 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5702 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5705 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5707 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5708 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5710 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5711 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5712 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5714 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5716 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5718 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5720 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5721 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5722 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5723 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5724 because the tests only now provoked it.
5726 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5727 (this can affect the format of dates).
5729 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5730 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5731 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5732 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5734 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5736 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5737 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5738 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5739 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5741 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5742 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5743 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5745 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5748 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5749 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5750 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5751 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5752 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5753 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5756 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5757 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5758 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5761 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5762 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5763 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5765 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5766 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5767 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5768 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5769 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5770 so I produce this patch..."
5772 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5773 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5776 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5777 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5778 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5779 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5782 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5784 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5785 long debug lines gets shown.
5787 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5788 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5790 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5792 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5793 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5794 of $primary_hostname.
5796 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5797 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5798 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5799 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5800 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5801 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5802 by change 4.50/55 above.
5804 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5805 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5806 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5807 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5808 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5809 running as the user.
5812 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5813 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5814 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5817 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5818 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5820 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5821 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5822 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5823 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5824 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5826 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5827 This has been fixed.
5829 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5830 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5831 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5832 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5835 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5837 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5838 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5839 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5840 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5842 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5843 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5845 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5846 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5847 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5849 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5850 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5851 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5854 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5855 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5856 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5858 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5859 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5860 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5861 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5863 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5864 during host lookups.
5866 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5867 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5869 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5871 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5872 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5873 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5874 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5875 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5878 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5879 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5881 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5882 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5883 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5885 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5887 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5888 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5889 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5890 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5891 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5892 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5895 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5896 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5897 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5898 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5899 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5901 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5904 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5906 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5907 "vacation" handling.
5909 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5910 OS variants using glibc.
5912 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5915 ----------------------------------------------------
5916 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5917 ----------------------------------------------------
5923 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5924 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5927 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5928 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5931 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5932 filter fails to execute.
5934 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5935 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5936 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5937 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5938 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5940 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5941 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5942 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5943 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5945 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5946 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5947 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5948 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5949 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5951 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5953 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5954 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5955 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5956 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5958 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5959 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5960 sender verification.
5962 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5963 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5965 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5966 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5968 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5969 ignore_target_hosts.
5971 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5972 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5973 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5974 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5977 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5978 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5979 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5981 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5982 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5983 wake it up if nothing else does.
5985 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5986 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5987 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5990 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5991 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5993 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5995 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5996 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5999 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6000 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6003 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6004 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6005 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6006 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6007 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6010 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6011 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6014 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6015 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6016 $sender_host_address.
6018 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6020 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6021 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6022 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6024 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6027 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6028 (this can affect the format of dates).
6030 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6031 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6032 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6033 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6035 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6036 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6037 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6039 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6040 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6041 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6042 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6044 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6045 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6046 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6048 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6051 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6052 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6053 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6054 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6055 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6056 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6059 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6060 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6061 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6062 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6065 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6066 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6067 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6068 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6069 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6070 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6071 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6073 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6074 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6075 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6076 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6077 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6078 running as the user.
6081 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6082 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6083 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6086 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6087 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6088 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6089 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6090 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6092 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6093 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6094 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6095 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6098 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6099 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6100 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6101 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6102 because the tests only now provoked it.
6108 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6109 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6110 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6111 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6112 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6113 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6114 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6116 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6117 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6120 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6122 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6124 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6125 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6128 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6129 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6130 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6131 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6132 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6134 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6135 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6137 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6139 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6141 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6144 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6145 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6147 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6148 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6149 affecting debugging statements).
6151 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6153 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6154 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6155 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6156 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6157 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6158 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6159 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6160 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6161 after the received time, and all would be well.
6163 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6164 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6165 condition in an expansion string.
6167 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6169 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6170 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6171 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6172 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6173 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6174 job under whatever limits there are.
6176 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6178 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6181 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6182 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6183 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6184 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6187 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6188 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6189 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6190 binary data in such strings.
6192 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6194 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6195 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6196 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6197 failure, which is pointless.
6199 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6201 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6203 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6204 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6205 Sender: header lines.
6207 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6208 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6209 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6211 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6212 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6213 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6214 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6215 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6218 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6219 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6220 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6221 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6222 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6224 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6225 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6226 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6229 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6230 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6232 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6233 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6235 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6237 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6239 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6241 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6244 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6246 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6248 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6249 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6250 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6251 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6253 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6254 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6260 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6261 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6262 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6264 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6265 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6266 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6267 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6268 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6269 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6271 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6272 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6273 verification failure".
6275 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6276 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6277 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6278 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6280 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6281 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6282 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6283 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6284 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6285 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6286 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6287 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6288 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6289 treated as a timeout.
6291 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6292 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6293 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6294 not set for Exim filters).
6296 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6297 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6298 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6300 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6302 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6303 try to make them clearer.
6305 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6306 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6308 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6310 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6312 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6313 only the Cygwin environment.
6315 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6316 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6317 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6318 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6319 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6321 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6322 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6323 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6324 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6325 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6326 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6327 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6329 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6330 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6332 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6334 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6335 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6336 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6338 To: susanne@some.where
6340 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6341 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6342 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6343 of addresses in From: header lines).
6345 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6346 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6347 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6349 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6350 treated as non-personal.
6352 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6353 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6355 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6357 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6359 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6360 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6361 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6363 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6364 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6366 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6367 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6368 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6369 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6370 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6371 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6373 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6374 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6375 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6376 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6377 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6378 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6379 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6380 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6382 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6384 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6385 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6387 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6388 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6389 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6391 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6392 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6394 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6395 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6396 rather than long int.
6398 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6400 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6406 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6407 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6408 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6409 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6410 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6411 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6417 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6418 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6420 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6421 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6422 socklen_t is defined.
6424 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6427 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6430 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6431 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6432 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6433 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6434 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6436 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6437 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6438 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6439 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6441 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6442 of flapping under certain conditions.
6444 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6445 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6446 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6448 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6450 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6452 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6453 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6454 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6455 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6457 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6458 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6459 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6460 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6461 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6462 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6463 preserved with the message after it was received.
6465 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6466 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6467 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6468 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6469 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6470 test suite worked just fine.
6472 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6473 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6474 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6476 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6477 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6480 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6481 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6482 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6483 does not fully solve it.
6485 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6486 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6487 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6488 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6489 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6491 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6492 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6493 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6495 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6496 string, for example:
6498 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6500 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6501 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6502 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6503 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6504 the routers could not see them.
6506 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6507 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6509 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6510 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6513 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6514 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6515 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6516 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6517 that needed quoting.
6519 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6520 was not being matched caselessly.
6522 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6525 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6526 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6527 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6528 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6529 when use_sender is false.
6531 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6533 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6535 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6537 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6538 the configuration file.
6540 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6541 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6543 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6545 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6546 bytes in the message body.
6548 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6549 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6552 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6554 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6556 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6557 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6558 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6559 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6566 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6567 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6569 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6570 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6571 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6572 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6573 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6575 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6576 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6578 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6579 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6580 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6582 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6583 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6584 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6586 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6589 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6590 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6591 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6592 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6593 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6594 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6595 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6601 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6602 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6603 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6604 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6605 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6606 default (and expected) setting.
6608 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6609 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6610 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6611 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6613 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6614 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6616 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6619 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6620 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6621 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6622 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6623 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6624 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6626 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6627 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6628 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6630 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6631 part (NOT match_host).
6633 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6635 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6636 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6637 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6638 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6639 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6640 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6641 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6642 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6643 the same named file.
6645 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6646 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6649 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6650 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6651 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6652 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6655 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6656 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6657 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6659 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6661 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6663 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6665 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6666 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6668 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6669 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6670 before starting the TLS session.
6672 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6674 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6675 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6677 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6678 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6679 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6680 colon in the middle).
6686 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6687 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6688 multiple configurations are in use.
6690 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6691 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6692 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6693 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6694 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6695 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6697 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6698 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6700 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6701 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6702 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6704 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6705 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6708 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6709 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6711 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6713 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6714 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6716 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6724 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6725 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6726 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6727 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6728 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6730 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6733 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6734 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6735 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6736 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6737 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6738 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6740 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6741 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6742 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6743 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6744 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6745 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6746 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6749 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6750 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6751 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6752 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6753 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6755 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6757 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6758 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6759 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6761 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6763 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6764 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6765 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6768 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6769 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6771 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6772 Three changes have been made:
6774 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6775 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6776 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6777 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6778 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6780 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6783 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6784 the modified behaviour.
6790 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6793 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6794 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6796 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6797 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6798 try to track down a specific problem.
6800 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6801 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6802 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6804 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6807 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6808 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6809 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6810 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6811 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6812 some earlier ones do not.
6814 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6816 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6817 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6818 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6819 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6820 address literals are enabled, of course).
6822 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6824 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6825 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6826 by a command such as
6830 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6832 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6834 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6835 remained set. It is now erased.
6837 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6838 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6840 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6841 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6842 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6843 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6844 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6845 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6846 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6847 appropriate error code.
6849 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6850 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6851 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6852 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6853 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6854 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6856 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6857 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6858 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6860 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6861 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6862 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6863 terminate the header.
6865 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6866 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6867 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6869 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6870 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6871 (4.30/29). In particular:
6873 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6876 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6877 to write a maildirsize file.
6879 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6880 the transport, the new value overrides.
6882 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6885 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6886 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6887 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6890 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6891 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6892 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6895 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6896 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6897 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6899 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6900 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6903 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6904 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6905 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6907 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6909 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6911 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6913 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6914 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6917 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6918 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6919 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6920 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6921 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6922 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6923 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6926 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6927 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6928 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6929 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6930 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6933 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6934 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6935 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6936 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6937 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6938 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6939 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6940 cached value only when the same options are set.
6942 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6944 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6945 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6946 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6947 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6948 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6950 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6951 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6952 it is clearly obsolete.
6954 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6957 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6958 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6959 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6962 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6963 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6964 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6965 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6966 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6968 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6969 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6970 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6971 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6973 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6975 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6977 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6978 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6981 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6982 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6983 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6984 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6985 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6986 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6989 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6990 with the -f command-line option.
6992 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6993 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6994 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6995 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6996 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6997 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6999 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7000 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7003 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7004 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7005 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7006 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7007 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7008 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7009 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7010 buffer is too small.
7012 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7013 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7015 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7016 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7017 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7018 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7019 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7020 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7021 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7022 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7023 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7025 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7026 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7027 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7029 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7030 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7033 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7034 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7035 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7036 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7037 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7039 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7040 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7041 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7042 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7045 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7047 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7049 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7050 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7052 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7053 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7054 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7056 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7057 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7058 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7059 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7060 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7062 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7063 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7064 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7065 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7066 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7067 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7068 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7070 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7071 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7072 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7073 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7074 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7075 the test of how many are available.
7077 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7078 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7079 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7080 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7081 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7082 new message is started.
7084 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7085 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7087 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7088 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7090 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7091 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7092 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7095 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7096 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7097 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7098 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7099 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7100 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7101 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7103 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7104 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7105 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7106 interpreted as octal.
7108 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7111 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7112 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7113 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7114 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7115 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7116 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7118 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7119 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7120 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7121 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7123 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7124 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7125 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7126 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7128 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7129 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7132 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7133 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7135 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7137 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7138 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7139 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7140 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7142 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7143 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7144 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7145 supplied", which is not helpful.
7147 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7148 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7149 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7151 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7152 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7153 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7154 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7155 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7156 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7157 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7158 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7160 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7161 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7162 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7163 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7164 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7166 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7167 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7168 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7169 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7170 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7171 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7173 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7174 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7175 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7177 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7179 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7180 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7181 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7184 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7186 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7187 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7188 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7189 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7190 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7191 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7192 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7193 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7195 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7196 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7197 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7198 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7199 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7201 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7204 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7205 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7206 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7207 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7208 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7209 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7210 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7211 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7212 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7218 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7219 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7220 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7222 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7225 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7226 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7227 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7229 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7230 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7231 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7232 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7233 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7234 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7236 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7237 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7238 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7239 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7240 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7241 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7242 the Exim test suite.
7244 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7245 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7246 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7247 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7249 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7250 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7251 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7252 specify it in this variable.
7254 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7255 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7256 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7257 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7259 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7260 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7261 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7262 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7264 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7265 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7266 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7267 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7268 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7270 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7272 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7275 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7276 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7277 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7278 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7279 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7281 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7282 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7284 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7285 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7286 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7287 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7288 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7290 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7291 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7293 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7294 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7295 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7297 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7298 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7300 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7301 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7303 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7304 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7305 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7307 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7308 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7310 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7311 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7312 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7313 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7315 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7317 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7318 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7319 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7320 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7322 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7324 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7325 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7327 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7329 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7330 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7331 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7332 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7333 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7334 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7336 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7338 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7339 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7342 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7344 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7345 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7347 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7348 550 Sender verify failed
7350 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7351 the final line of the response.
7353 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7354 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7355 all other user lookups.
7357 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7360 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7361 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7362 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7363 result into an int without checking.
7365 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7366 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7367 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7369 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7370 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7371 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7372 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7374 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7377 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7378 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7380 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7381 to the empty sender.
7383 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7384 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7385 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7386 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7387 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7388 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7389 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7392 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7393 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7394 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7395 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7398 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7399 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7401 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7404 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7405 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7407 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7409 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7410 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7413 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7414 as soon as it is encountered.
7416 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7418 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7421 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7422 recognizes a tab character.
7424 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7425 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7426 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7427 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7429 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7431 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7434 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7436 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7438 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7439 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7442 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7443 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7444 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7445 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7446 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7448 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7449 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7451 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7452 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7453 list (.included file names were always shown).
7455 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7456 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7457 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7460 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7461 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7463 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7465 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7467 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7469 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7470 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7471 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7472 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7473 failures to open the logs.
7475 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7476 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7477 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7478 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7479 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7480 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7481 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7487 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7488 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7489 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7492 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7493 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7494 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7496 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7497 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7498 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7500 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7501 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7502 causing some misleading effects.
7504 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7505 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7506 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7508 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7509 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7510 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7511 queue-runner function directly.
7517 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7520 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7521 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7522 was always written to the default place.
7524 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7525 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7526 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7528 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7530 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7532 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7533 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7534 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7536 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7537 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7540 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7541 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7542 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7544 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7545 command line option is disabled.
7547 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7548 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7550 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7552 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7554 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7555 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7557 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7559 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7560 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7561 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7562 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7563 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7564 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7566 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7567 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7570 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7571 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7573 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7574 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7576 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7577 received was valid base64.
7579 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7580 name of the variable that was being set.
7582 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7584 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7585 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7586 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7587 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7588 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7589 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7591 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7593 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7594 nor realm was specified.
7596 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7597 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7598 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7599 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7601 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7602 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7603 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7605 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7606 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7607 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7609 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7610 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7611 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7612 some systems use these upper case variants.
7614 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7615 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7616 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7617 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7619 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7621 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7622 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7624 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7625 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7628 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7630 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7631 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7632 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7633 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7635 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7638 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7639 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7640 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7642 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7643 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7645 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7646 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7647 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7648 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7650 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7651 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7652 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7654 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7656 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7657 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7658 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7659 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7662 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7663 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7664 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7666 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7668 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7669 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7671 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7672 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7674 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7675 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7676 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7677 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7678 when emails are that large.
7685 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7686 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7688 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7689 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7690 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7692 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7693 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7694 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7696 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7697 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7698 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7699 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7700 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7702 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7703 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7704 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7705 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7706 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7709 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7710 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7711 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7712 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7713 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7714 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7715 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7716 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7717 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7718 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7719 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7720 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7721 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7722 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7724 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7725 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7728 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7729 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7730 error should be diagnosed.
7732 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7733 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7734 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7735 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7736 appeared instead of "NULL".
7738 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7739 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7740 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7741 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7742 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7743 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7746 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7747 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7748 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7754 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7755 or receiver verification errors.
7757 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7760 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7761 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7762 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7763 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7765 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7766 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7767 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7768 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7769 shouldn't happen again.
7771 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7772 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7773 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7775 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7776 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7778 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7780 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7781 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7783 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7784 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7787 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7788 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7789 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7791 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7792 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7793 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7794 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7796 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7797 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7798 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7799 to define what should happen).
7801 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7802 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7803 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7805 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7807 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7809 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7810 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7812 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7813 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7814 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7815 structure in all cases.
7817 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7818 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7819 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7820 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7822 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7823 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7826 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7827 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7829 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7830 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7832 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7833 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7834 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7836 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7837 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7838 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7840 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7841 the book and for uniformity.
7843 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7845 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7846 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7847 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7848 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7849 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7850 non-existent command as the problem.
7852 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7853 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7854 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7856 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7858 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7859 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7860 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7862 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7863 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7864 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7865 timestamps using strftime().
7867 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7868 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7870 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7871 transport-time rewrites.
7873 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7874 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7875 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7876 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7878 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7879 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7881 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7882 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7883 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7884 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7887 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7888 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7889 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7890 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7891 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7892 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7893 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7895 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7896 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7897 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7898 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7899 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7901 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7902 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7903 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7904 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7905 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7906 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7907 remaining text gets split now.
7909 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7910 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7911 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7912 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7914 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7915 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7916 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7917 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7920 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7921 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7922 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7923 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7924 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7925 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7926 passed through if needed.
7928 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7929 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7930 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7931 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7932 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7933 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7935 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7936 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7937 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7938 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7939 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7941 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7942 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7943 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7944 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7945 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7947 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7948 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7951 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7952 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7953 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7954 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7955 mayhem of various kinds.
7957 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7958 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7959 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7960 the right test for positive values.
7962 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7963 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7964 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7965 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7966 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7967 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7968 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7969 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7970 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7971 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7974 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7977 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7978 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7981 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7982 the existing equality matching.
7984 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7985 dealing with inode numbers.
7987 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7988 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7989 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7991 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7992 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7993 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7994 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7997 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7998 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7999 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8000 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8001 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8002 relay addresses has also been removed.
8004 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8006 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8007 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8008 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8010 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8011 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8012 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8013 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8014 processing applies to CR:
8016 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8017 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8019 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8020 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8021 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8022 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8024 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8025 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8026 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8028 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8029 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8030 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8031 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8032 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8033 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8036 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8039 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8040 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8041 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8042 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8045 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8047 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8049 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8051 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8052 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8053 not considered personal.
8055 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8057 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8059 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8061 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8062 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8063 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8064 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8065 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8066 header lines, and spool format errors.
8068 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8069 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8070 for more flexibility.
8072 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8073 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8074 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8076 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8079 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8080 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8081 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8082 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8083 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8084 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8085 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8086 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8087 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8089 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8090 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8091 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8092 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8093 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8094 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8095 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8097 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8098 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8099 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8101 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8102 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8103 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8104 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8105 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8106 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8107 instead of killing the process with assert().
8109 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8110 than Unicode encoding.
8112 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8113 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8114 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8115 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8117 77. Added process_log_path.
8119 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8120 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8122 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8123 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8125 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8126 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8127 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8129 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8130 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8131 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8132 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8133 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8136 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8137 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8140 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8141 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8142 they will be used during message reception.
8148 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.