1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
10 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
11 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
13 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
14 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
15 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
16 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
18 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
19 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
20 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
21 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
22 so could be handling tainted values.
24 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
25 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
26 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
28 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
29 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
30 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
33 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
34 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
35 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
36 to align better with RFC 6125.
38 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
39 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
40 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
41 by adding a relase action in that path.
43 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
44 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
45 dynamically-created buffers.
47 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
48 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
49 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
50 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
52 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
53 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
54 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
55 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
57 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
58 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
59 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
61 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
62 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
63 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
64 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
66 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
67 excluded, not matching the documentation.
69 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
70 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
72 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
73 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
74 this was a coding error.
76 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
77 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
78 spent suspended, ignoring the Posix definition. Previously we assumed
79 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
80 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
81 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
82 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
84 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
85 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
86 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignement. Discovery and fix by
87 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
89 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
90 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
91 dynamicaly created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
92 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
93 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
95 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
96 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
99 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
100 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
101 domain-parking registrar.
103 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
104 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
105 after removing the newline.
107 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
108 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
109 option set, which was previously used.
111 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
114 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
115 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
116 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
117 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
119 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
120 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
121 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
122 exim.dev.20160529.3).
124 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
125 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
126 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
128 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
129 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
130 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
133 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
134 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
135 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
137 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
138 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
139 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
140 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
143 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
144 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
145 there, handle PRX and TFO.
147 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
148 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
149 in a panic-log trigerrable by sending a message with a long address in
150 a header. Fix by increaing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
151 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
153 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
154 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
155 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
156 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
159 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
160 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
162 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
165 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
166 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
167 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
168 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
169 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
171 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
173 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
174 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
175 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
176 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
177 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
178 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
180 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
181 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
183 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
184 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
185 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentidcation.
187 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
188 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
191 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
192 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
193 of a new variable: $auth4.
195 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
196 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
197 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
198 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
199 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
201 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
202 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
203 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
204 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
206 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
207 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
208 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
210 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
211 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
212 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
213 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
216 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
217 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
218 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
221 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
222 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
223 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
224 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
226 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
227 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
229 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
230 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
231 looked as if if might be one.
233 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
234 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
235 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
236 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
237 messages can show the proxy information.
239 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
240 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
241 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
242 "queue_time_exclusive".
244 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
245 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover epxansions
246 rerulting in acl names and inline ACL content.
253 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
254 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
255 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
257 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
259 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
260 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
263 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
264 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
265 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
267 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
269 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
271 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
272 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
273 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
275 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
276 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
277 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
279 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
280 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
282 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
283 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
286 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
287 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
288 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
289 should both provide the file and set the option.
290 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
292 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
293 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
295 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
296 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
297 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
298 Authentication-Results: header.
300 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
301 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
302 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
303 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
305 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
306 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
307 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
308 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
309 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
310 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
311 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
313 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
314 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
315 copies while it is still usable.
317 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
318 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
319 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
321 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
322 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
324 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
325 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
326 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
327 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
329 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
330 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
331 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
334 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
335 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
336 - the pipe transport command
337 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
338 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
340 - paths used by single-key lookups
341 Previously this was permitted.
343 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
344 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
345 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
346 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
348 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
349 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
350 support larger malloc requests.
352 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
353 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
354 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
355 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
357 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
358 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
359 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
360 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
363 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
364 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
365 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
366 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
367 data being length-specified.
369 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
370 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
371 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
372 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
374 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
375 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
376 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
377 not being properly tracked.
379 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
380 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
381 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
382 minute could be seen.
384 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
385 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
386 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
388 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
389 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
391 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
392 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
395 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
397 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
398 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
400 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
401 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
402 filesystem as sufficient validation.
404 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
405 argument is supplied.
407 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
408 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
409 access under Exim's current working directory.
411 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
412 Previously no event was raised.
414 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
415 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
416 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
419 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
420 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
421 the size of the signature hash.
423 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
424 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
426 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
427 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
428 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
429 dropped between messages.
431 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
432 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
433 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
434 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
436 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
437 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
438 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
439 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
440 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
441 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
442 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
443 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
444 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
446 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
447 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
448 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
450 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
451 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
458 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
459 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
461 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
462 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
465 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
468 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
470 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
472 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
473 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
475 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
476 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
477 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
478 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
479 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
480 suitably configured).
482 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
483 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
485 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
486 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
489 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
490 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
492 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
493 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
494 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
495 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
498 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
499 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
500 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
502 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
505 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
506 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
508 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
509 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
510 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
511 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
514 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
515 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
516 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
517 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
520 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
521 shared (NFS) environment.
523 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
524 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
527 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
528 on some platforms for bit 31.
530 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
531 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
532 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
533 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
534 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
535 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
536 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
537 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
539 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
541 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
542 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
544 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
545 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
548 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
549 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
552 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
553 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
554 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
557 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
558 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
559 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
561 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
562 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
563 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
564 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
565 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
567 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
570 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
571 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
572 be requested on all coneections.
574 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
575 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
577 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
579 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
580 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
581 one for these; the option was ignored.
583 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
584 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
585 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
586 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
588 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
589 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
590 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
593 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
594 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
595 error ignored was made.
597 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
599 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
600 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
601 values, to catch one form of exploit.
603 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
604 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
605 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
607 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
608 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
611 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
612 them in our smtp response.
614 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
615 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
616 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
617 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
618 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
620 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
621 link count into consideration.
623 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
624 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
626 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
627 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
628 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
631 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
633 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
635 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
637 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
638 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
639 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
640 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
642 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
644 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
645 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
648 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
649 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
650 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
652 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
653 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
654 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
656 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
657 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
658 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
659 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
660 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
661 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
662 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
663 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
665 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
666 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
667 resulted in an indefinite loop.
669 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
670 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
671 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
677 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
678 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
680 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
681 non-signal-safe functions being used.
683 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
684 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
685 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
687 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
688 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
689 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
691 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
692 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
693 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
694 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
695 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
698 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
699 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
701 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
702 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
703 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
704 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
705 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
706 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
707 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
709 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
710 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
712 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
715 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
716 Previously this would segfault.
718 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
721 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
722 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
723 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
724 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
725 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
726 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
728 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
730 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
731 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
732 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
733 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
735 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
737 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
738 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
739 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
740 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
742 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
744 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
746 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
747 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
748 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
750 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
751 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
752 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
754 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
756 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
757 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
758 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
759 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
761 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
762 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
763 promised '?' replacement.
765 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
767 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
768 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
769 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
770 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
771 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
773 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
774 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
775 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
777 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
778 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
779 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
781 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
782 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
783 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
785 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
786 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
787 hope that is portable enough.
789 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
790 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
791 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
792 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
794 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
795 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
796 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
798 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
799 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
800 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
801 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
803 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
804 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
806 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
807 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
808 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
809 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
811 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
812 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
813 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
815 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
816 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
817 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
818 the previous G, M, k.
820 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
821 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
824 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
825 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
826 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
827 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
829 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
830 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
832 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
833 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
834 off past the nul-terimation.
836 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
837 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
838 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
839 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
840 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
842 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
844 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
845 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
846 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
849 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
850 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
852 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
853 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
854 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
856 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
857 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
858 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
860 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
861 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
867 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
868 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
869 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
870 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
871 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
872 be defined in redis_servers.
874 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
875 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
877 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
878 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
879 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
880 extant use locations.
882 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
883 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
885 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
886 Previously only the last row was returned.
888 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
889 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
890 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
891 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
894 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
895 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
896 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
897 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
898 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
899 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
900 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
901 Main pool for expansions.
902 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
903 active in the testsuite.
904 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
906 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
907 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
908 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
909 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
912 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
913 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
916 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
917 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
918 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
920 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
921 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
922 ClamAV interface method is removed.
924 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
925 rows affected is given instead).
927 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
928 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
930 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
931 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
932 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
933 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
934 for all multi-message initiating connections.
936 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
937 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
938 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
940 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
941 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
942 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
943 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
946 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
947 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
948 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
951 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
953 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
954 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
956 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
957 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
958 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
960 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
961 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
962 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
965 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
966 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
968 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
969 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
970 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
972 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
973 for the build is renamed.
975 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
976 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
977 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
979 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
980 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
981 result replacing the original.
983 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
984 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
985 and the resources needed to be freed.
987 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
989 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
992 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
993 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
994 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
995 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
997 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
998 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1000 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1001 newer versions of the scanner.
1003 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1004 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1005 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1006 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1007 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1008 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1009 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1011 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1012 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1013 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1014 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1015 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1016 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1017 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1018 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1019 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1020 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1022 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1023 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1025 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1027 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1028 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1030 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1031 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1033 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1034 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1035 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1037 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1038 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1039 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1040 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1042 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1043 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1046 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1047 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1049 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1050 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1051 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1052 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1053 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1055 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1056 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1059 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1060 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1062 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1065 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1066 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1067 "bare" representation.
1069 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1070 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1071 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1072 corrupted the output.
1078 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1079 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1080 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1081 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1083 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1084 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1086 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1087 This permits better logging.
1089 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1090 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1091 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1092 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1093 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1094 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1096 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1097 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1100 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1101 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1102 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1104 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1105 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1107 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1108 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1109 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1110 client, there is no benefit for these.
1111 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1112 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1113 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1116 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1117 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1119 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1120 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1121 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1123 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1124 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1126 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1127 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1128 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1129 signature and again for transmission.
1131 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1132 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1133 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1135 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1136 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1137 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1138 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1139 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1140 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1141 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1143 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1144 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1145 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1146 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1148 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1149 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1150 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1151 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1152 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1153 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1156 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1157 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1158 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1159 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1162 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1163 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1164 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1165 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1168 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1169 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1172 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1173 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1174 banner-time rejection.
1176 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1179 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1180 is the name of a transport.
1183 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1185 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1186 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1188 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1189 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1190 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1193 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1194 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1195 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1196 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1198 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1199 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1200 initial verify call returned a defer.
1202 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1203 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1205 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1206 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1208 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1209 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1211 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1212 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1214 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1215 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1218 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1219 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1221 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1222 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1223 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1225 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1226 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1227 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1228 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1230 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1231 and confused the parent.
1233 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1234 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1236 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1239 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1240 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1241 out-of-order delivery.
1243 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1244 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1245 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1248 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1249 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1252 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1253 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1254 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1256 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1257 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1258 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1259 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1260 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1261 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1263 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1264 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1265 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1267 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1268 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1269 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1271 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1272 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1273 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1274 though a different problem.
1280 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1281 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1283 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1285 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1286 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1288 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1289 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1291 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1292 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1293 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1294 before acknowledging the chunk.
1296 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1297 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1298 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1300 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1301 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1302 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1305 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1306 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1307 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1309 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1310 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1312 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1313 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1314 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1315 body hash calculated value.
1317 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1318 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1319 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1321 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1323 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1324 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1326 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1327 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1328 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1330 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1331 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1332 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1333 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1334 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1335 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1337 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1338 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1339 past that check, despite the cost.
1341 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1342 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1343 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1345 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1346 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1347 TLS library to consume.
1349 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1351 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1353 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1354 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1355 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1356 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1357 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1358 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1359 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1361 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1363 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1365 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1366 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1367 should be warning-free.
1369 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1371 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1372 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1374 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1375 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1376 general solution here.
1378 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1379 already-broken messages in the queue.
1381 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1383 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1389 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1390 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1392 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1393 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1394 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1396 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1397 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1398 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1399 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1400 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1401 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1402 if one fails this test.
1403 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1404 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1406 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1407 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1409 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1410 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1412 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1413 in rewrites and routers.
1415 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1416 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1418 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1419 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1421 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1423 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1426 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1427 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1428 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1429 connection after a verify cache hit.
1430 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1432 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1433 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1435 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1436 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1437 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1438 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1439 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1441 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1442 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1444 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1445 Previously they were not counted.
1447 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1448 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1449 that needed the lookup.
1451 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1452 distinguished as "(=".
1454 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1455 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1457 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1459 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1460 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1462 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1463 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1465 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1466 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1469 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1470 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1471 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1472 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1474 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1476 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1477 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1478 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1480 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1481 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1482 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1485 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1486 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1487 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1490 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1491 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1492 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1494 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1495 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1498 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1500 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1501 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1503 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1504 are not in the system include path.
1506 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1507 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1508 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1509 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1511 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1512 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1513 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1515 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1517 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1518 an incoming connection.
1520 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1523 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1524 fallback to "prime256v1".
1526 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1527 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1533 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1534 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1535 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1536 client dropping the TLS connection.
1538 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1539 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1541 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1542 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1543 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1544 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1547 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1548 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1549 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1550 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1551 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1552 check on the next write.
1554 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1555 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1556 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1557 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1558 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1560 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1561 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1563 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1564 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1565 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1567 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1568 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1569 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1570 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1572 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1573 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1575 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1576 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1578 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1579 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1580 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1583 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1585 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1587 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1589 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1590 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1592 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1593 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1595 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1597 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1598 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1600 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1602 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1603 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1605 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1607 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1608 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1609 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1610 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1611 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1612 they will retry in-clear.
1613 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1614 at installation time.
1616 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1617 with the $config_file variable.
1619 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1620 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1621 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1622 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1623 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1625 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1626 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1627 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1628 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1629 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1631 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1633 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1634 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1635 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1636 list order is no longer honoured.
1638 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1639 for DKIM processing.
1641 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1642 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1644 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1645 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1646 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1647 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1649 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1650 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1652 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1653 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1655 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1656 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1658 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1660 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1661 cached by the daemon.
1663 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1664 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1666 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1667 keys are given for lookup.
1669 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1670 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1671 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1672 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1674 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1675 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1676 server-side so match that on older versions.
1678 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1679 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1680 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1682 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1683 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1685 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1686 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1687 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1688 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1689 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1690 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1691 initial truncated version.
1693 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1695 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1697 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1698 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1700 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1702 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1704 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1705 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1708 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1709 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1712 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1713 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1715 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1716 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1719 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1720 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1721 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1723 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1724 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1725 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1726 extraction. Accept either.
1732 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1735 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1737 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1740 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1741 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1742 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1743 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1745 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1746 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1747 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1749 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1750 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1751 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1754 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1757 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1758 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1759 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1760 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1761 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1763 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1764 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1765 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1767 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1769 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1770 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1772 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1773 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1775 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1778 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1779 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1781 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1782 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1783 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1785 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1786 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1787 specify a port-range.
1789 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1790 timeout value per server.
1792 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1793 now have the list separator specified.
1795 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1798 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1801 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1803 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1804 rather than the verbs used.
1806 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1807 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1809 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1811 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1812 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1814 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1815 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1817 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1818 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1820 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1822 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1824 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1825 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1826 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1827 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1829 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1831 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1832 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1834 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1835 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1837 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1839 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1841 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1843 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1844 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1846 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1847 added for tls authenticator.
1849 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1855 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1856 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1857 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1858 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1859 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1860 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1861 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1863 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1864 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1865 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1866 function when detected.
1868 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1869 cause callback expansion.
1871 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1872 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1873 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1874 instead of bool when processing it.
1876 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1877 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1879 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1881 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1883 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1885 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1886 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1888 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1889 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1890 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1891 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1892 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1893 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1895 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1896 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1899 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1900 version 3.3.6 or later.
1902 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1903 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1904 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1905 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1906 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1907 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1910 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1911 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1913 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1914 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1915 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1918 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1919 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1920 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1922 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1923 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1925 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1926 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1929 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1931 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1932 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1934 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1935 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1938 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1940 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1943 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1944 output list separator was used.
1949 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1950 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1953 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1954 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1956 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1958 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1959 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1965 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1967 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1968 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1969 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1970 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1971 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1972 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1974 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1975 utilities have not been installed.
1977 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1978 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1980 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1981 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1983 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1984 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1985 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1986 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1988 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1990 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1991 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1993 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1996 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1998 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1999 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2000 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2002 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2003 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2004 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2005 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2006 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2007 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2009 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2011 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2012 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2014 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2017 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2019 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2021 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2022 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2024 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2025 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2027 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2029 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2031 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2032 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2034 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2035 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2036 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2038 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2039 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2040 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2043 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2045 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2046 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2049 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2050 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2053 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2054 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2056 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2057 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2059 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2061 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2062 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2063 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2065 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2066 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2068 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2069 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2072 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2073 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2074 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2076 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2078 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2079 Christian Aistleitner.
2081 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2083 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2084 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2086 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2087 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2089 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2090 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2092 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2093 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2095 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2096 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2098 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2099 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2100 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2102 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2104 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2105 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2108 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2110 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2111 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2118 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2120 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2121 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2123 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2126 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2127 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2130 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2132 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2133 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2134 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2135 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2136 using channel bindings instead).
2138 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2139 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2140 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2141 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2142 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2145 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2147 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2149 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2150 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2152 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2153 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2154 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2156 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2158 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2160 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2161 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2163 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2165 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2167 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2169 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2170 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2172 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2174 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2175 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2178 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2179 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2181 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2182 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2185 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2187 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2189 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2190 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2192 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2195 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2196 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2198 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2199 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2201 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2203 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2205 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2208 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2211 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2213 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2214 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2215 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2216 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2218 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2220 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2221 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2222 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2223 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2226 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2227 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2228 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2230 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2231 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2232 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2233 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2235 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2236 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2237 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2238 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2239 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2240 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2241 delivery, as in LMTP.
2243 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2244 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2246 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2248 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2252 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2253 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2254 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2255 username as equal to the username.
2257 This change corrects that bug.
2259 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2260 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2261 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2263 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2265 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2266 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2267 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2268 NULL dereference and crash.
2270 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2272 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2273 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2274 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2276 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2278 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2279 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2280 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2281 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2282 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2283 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2284 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2285 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2286 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2287 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2288 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2290 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2291 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2293 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2294 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2297 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2298 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2299 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2300 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2301 an empty string is now equivalent.
2303 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2304 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2305 not performing validation itself.
2307 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2308 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2310 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2313 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2315 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2316 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2317 other false fix of the same issue.
2318 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2321 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2322 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2324 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2325 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2326 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2328 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2329 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2330 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2332 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2334 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2336 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2337 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2339 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2342 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2343 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2344 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2345 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2346 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2348 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2349 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2351 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2352 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2355 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2356 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2357 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2358 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2360 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2362 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2363 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2364 from multiple comments on this bug.
2366 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2368 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2369 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2372 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2373 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2375 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2376 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2382 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2384 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2390 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2391 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2392 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2394 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2396 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2399 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2401 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2403 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2405 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2406 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2408 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2409 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2411 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2412 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2414 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2415 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2416 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2418 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2420 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2421 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2423 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2425 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2427 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2428 non-compliant senders.
2429 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2431 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2432 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2433 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2435 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2436 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2437 in spool file corruption.
2439 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2440 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2441 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2444 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2445 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2446 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2448 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2449 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2451 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2453 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2455 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2457 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2458 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2459 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2461 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2462 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2463 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2464 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2466 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2467 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2469 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2470 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2471 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2472 resolver implementation change.
2474 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2475 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2477 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2479 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2481 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2482 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2484 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2485 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2487 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2488 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2490 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2491 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2492 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2493 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2494 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2496 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2498 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2499 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2500 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2502 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2504 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2505 read-only, out of scope).
2506 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2508 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2509 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2510 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2511 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2513 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2515 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2516 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2517 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2518 real issues in debug logging.
2520 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2521 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2523 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2524 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2525 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2527 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2528 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2529 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2532 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2533 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2535 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2536 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2537 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2538 needs to override this, it can.
2540 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2541 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2542 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2544 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2545 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2546 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2547 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2549 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2555 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2556 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2558 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2560 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2563 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2564 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2566 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2567 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2568 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2570 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2571 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2572 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2573 not safe for signals.
2575 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2576 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2577 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2578 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2581 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2583 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2584 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2585 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2586 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2587 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2589 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2590 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2591 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2592 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2593 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2594 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2596 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2597 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2598 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2599 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2601 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2602 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2603 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2604 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2606 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2607 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2608 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2609 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2610 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2611 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2612 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2613 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2614 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2616 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2617 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2618 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2619 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2621 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2622 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2623 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2624 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2625 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2626 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2627 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2628 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2629 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2630 details in the main documentation.
2632 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2634 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2636 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2637 repository when doing development or release builds.
2639 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2640 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2642 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2643 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2646 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2648 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2649 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2651 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2652 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2654 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2655 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2657 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2658 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2660 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2661 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2663 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2665 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2668 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2669 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2670 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2672 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2674 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2676 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2677 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2683 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2685 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2686 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2688 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2690 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2692 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2695 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2696 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2698 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2699 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2701 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2702 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2704 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2707 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2708 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2710 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2711 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2712 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2713 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2715 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2716 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2722 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2725 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2726 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2727 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2729 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2730 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2732 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2733 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2734 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2736 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2737 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2739 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2740 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2742 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2743 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2745 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2746 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2748 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2749 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2751 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2754 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2755 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2757 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2758 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2760 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2761 SQL string expansion failure details.
2762 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2764 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2765 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2767 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2768 extern declarations in function scope.
2769 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2771 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2772 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2773 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2776 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2777 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2779 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2780 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2782 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2783 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2785 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2786 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2788 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2789 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2792 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2794 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2796 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2797 Patch by Simon Arlott
2799 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2800 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2806 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2807 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2809 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2810 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2812 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2814 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2815 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2816 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2818 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2819 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2820 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2822 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2823 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2824 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2825 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2827 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2828 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2829 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2830 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2832 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2833 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2834 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2837 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2840 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2841 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2842 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2843 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2844 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2850 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2851 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2852 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2854 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2855 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2857 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2859 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2861 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2863 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2865 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2867 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2868 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2869 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2870 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2872 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2873 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2874 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2875 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2876 more caution in buffer sizes.
2878 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2880 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2882 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2884 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2886 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2888 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2890 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2892 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2893 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2894 ignore trailing whitespace.
2896 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2898 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2901 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2902 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2904 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2905 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2906 Notification from John Horne.
2908 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2911 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2912 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2915 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2918 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2919 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2920 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2922 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2923 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2924 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2927 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2928 option (effectively making it always true).
2930 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2931 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2933 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2934 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2936 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2937 run-time user, instead of root.
2939 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2940 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2942 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2943 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2946 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2947 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2948 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2950 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2952 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2958 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2959 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2962 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2963 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2966 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2967 Patch from Alain Williams
2969 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2971 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2972 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2974 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2975 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2977 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2979 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2981 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2982 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2984 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2986 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2988 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2989 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2990 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2992 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2993 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2995 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2996 Patch by Simon Arlott
2998 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2999 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3005 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3007 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3009 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3011 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3013 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3019 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3020 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3022 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3023 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3026 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3027 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3028 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3030 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3031 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3033 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3034 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3035 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3036 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3038 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3039 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3040 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3042 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3044 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3046 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3047 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3049 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3051 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3052 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3053 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3054 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3056 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3057 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3059 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3061 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3063 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3064 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3066 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3067 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3069 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3070 that they are available at delivery time.
3072 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3074 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3075 incoming_port log selectors.
3077 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3078 setting expands to an empty string.
3080 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3081 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3083 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3084 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3086 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3087 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3089 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3090 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3092 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3093 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3095 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3096 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3098 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3100 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3101 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3103 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3104 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3106 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3108 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3109 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3111 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3113 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3115 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3118 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3119 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3121 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3122 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3124 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3125 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3127 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3128 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3130 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3131 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3133 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3134 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3136 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3137 plus update to original patch.
3139 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3141 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3142 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3144 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3146 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3148 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3150 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3152 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3153 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3155 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3156 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3158 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3159 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3161 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3162 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3164 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3166 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3168 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3170 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3176 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3177 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3178 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3180 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3181 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3182 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3183 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3184 build errors in sieve.c.
3186 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3187 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3188 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3190 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3192 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3194 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3196 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3202 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3204 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3205 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3206 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3207 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3208 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3209 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3210 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3211 for iplsearch lookups.
3213 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3214 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3215 previously such lookups could never work.
3217 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3218 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3219 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3221 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3224 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3225 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3226 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3227 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3228 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3229 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3231 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3232 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3234 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3235 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3236 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3237 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3238 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3239 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3241 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3244 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3246 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3247 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3250 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3251 by clients under certain conditions.
3253 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3254 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3256 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3258 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3259 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3261 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3263 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3265 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3267 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3268 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3270 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3272 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3273 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3275 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3277 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3279 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3280 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3281 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3282 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3284 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3285 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3286 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3288 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3289 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3291 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3293 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3295 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3297 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3298 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3299 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3305 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3306 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3309 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3310 issue a MAIL command.
3312 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3314 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3316 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3317 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3318 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3319 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3320 item. This has been fixed.
3322 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3323 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3325 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3326 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3328 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3329 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3330 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3332 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3334 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3335 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3336 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3337 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3338 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3340 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3341 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3342 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3344 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3345 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3346 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3347 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3349 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3351 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3353 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3354 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3355 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3356 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3357 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3359 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3361 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3362 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3363 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3366 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3368 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3370 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3372 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3374 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3376 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3377 no_callout_flush is set.
3379 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3380 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3381 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3384 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3386 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3387 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3388 other ACL rejections are.
3390 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3391 with slight modification.
3393 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3394 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3396 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3397 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3400 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3401 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3403 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3405 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3406 expansion side effects.
3408 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3409 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3410 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3413 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3414 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3415 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3417 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3418 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3419 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3420 were accidentally chopped off.
3422 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3423 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3424 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3425 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3426 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3427 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3428 pipelining has not been advertised.
3430 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3432 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3433 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3434 This has been fixed.
3436 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3437 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3438 reported on Solaris.
3440 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3441 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3442 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3443 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3444 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3445 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3446 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3448 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3451 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3453 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3455 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3456 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3457 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3458 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3459 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3460 criteria to be more general.
3462 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3463 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3464 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3465 host_all_ignored option.
3467 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3468 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3469 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3470 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3471 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3472 is what is supposed to happen).
3474 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3475 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3476 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3477 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3478 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3481 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3482 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3483 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3484 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3485 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3486 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3489 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3491 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3492 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3494 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3495 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3497 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3499 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3501 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3502 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3503 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3504 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3505 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3506 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3507 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3508 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3509 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3510 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3511 least in a lot of common cases.
3513 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3514 advertised in response to EHLO.
3520 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3521 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3523 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3524 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3526 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3527 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3528 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3530 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3531 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3532 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3533 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3534 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3540 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3541 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3544 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3545 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3546 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3548 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3549 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3550 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3551 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3552 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3553 rather than extend the field.
3559 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3560 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3561 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3562 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3565 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3566 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3567 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3569 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3570 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3571 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3573 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3574 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3575 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3578 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3579 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3580 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3581 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3582 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3583 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3584 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3585 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3586 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3587 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3588 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3590 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3593 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3594 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3595 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3596 ignores EPIPE as well.
3598 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3599 (quoted-printable decoding).
3601 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3602 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3604 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3606 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3608 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3610 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3611 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3613 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3616 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3617 miscellaneous code fixes
3619 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3622 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3623 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3624 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3625 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3626 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3627 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3628 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3629 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3631 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3632 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3633 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3634 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3636 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3637 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3638 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3639 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3640 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3641 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3642 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3643 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3644 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3646 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3649 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3650 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3651 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3652 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3653 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3654 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3655 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3656 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3658 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3659 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3662 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3663 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3664 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3665 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3666 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3667 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3668 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3669 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3670 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3671 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3672 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3673 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3674 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3676 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3677 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3678 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3679 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3680 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3681 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3682 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3684 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3685 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3686 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3687 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3688 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3689 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3690 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3691 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3692 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3693 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3695 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3696 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3697 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3698 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3699 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3701 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3702 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3703 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3704 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3705 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3706 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3707 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3709 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3710 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3711 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3712 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3713 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3714 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3717 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3718 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3719 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3722 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3723 if any retry times were supplied.
3725 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3726 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3727 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3729 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3731 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3733 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3734 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3735 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3736 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3737 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3738 before) are ignored.
3740 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3741 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3743 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3744 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3745 committing the later change.]
3747 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3748 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3749 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3750 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3751 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3752 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3753 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3754 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3755 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3757 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3758 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3759 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3760 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3761 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3762 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3763 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3764 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3765 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3767 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3768 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3769 hammering the server.
3771 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3772 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3774 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3776 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3777 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3778 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3780 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3781 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3782 one case where this was not true.
3784 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3785 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3786 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3787 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3790 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3791 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3792 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3793 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3794 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3795 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3796 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3797 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3798 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3801 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3802 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3803 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3804 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3806 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3807 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3809 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3810 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3811 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3813 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3815 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3817 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3819 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3820 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3821 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3822 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3824 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3825 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3827 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3828 be meaningful with "accept".
3830 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3831 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3833 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3834 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3835 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3837 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3838 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3839 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3840 there is data to show.
3841 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3843 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3844 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3845 as well as the number of messages.
3847 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3848 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3849 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3851 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3852 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3853 have a flag are now skipped.
3855 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3856 Added the -emptyok flag.
3858 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3859 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3861 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3862 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3863 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3865 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3868 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3869 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3871 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3873 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3874 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3876 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3878 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3879 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3880 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3881 contravention of the specifications.
3883 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3884 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3885 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3887 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3888 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3889 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3891 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3893 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3894 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3895 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3896 some point in the past.
3898 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3899 transport during callout processing was broken.
3901 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3902 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3904 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3905 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3907 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3908 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3910 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3916 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3917 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3919 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3920 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3921 there is data to show.
3922 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3924 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3925 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3927 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3928 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3930 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3931 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3933 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3934 submissions from trusted users.
3936 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3937 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3939 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3940 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3941 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3942 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3943 there is now a framework to start from.
3945 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3946 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3947 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3949 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3951 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3953 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3955 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3956 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3957 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3959 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3962 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3963 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3964 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3966 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3967 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3968 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3971 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3972 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3973 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3974 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3975 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3977 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3978 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3980 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3982 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3983 operations in malware.c.
3985 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3988 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3989 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3990 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3993 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3994 statements to "add_header".
3996 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3997 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3999 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4000 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4003 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4007 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4008 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4009 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4012 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4013 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4015 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4016 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4018 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4019 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4020 any possible encoding problems.
4022 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4023 but not after initializing Perl.
4025 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4026 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4027 apparently, which is not desirable.
4029 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4032 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4035 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4037 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4038 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4039 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4040 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4042 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4043 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4044 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4046 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4047 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4048 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4051 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4052 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4053 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4054 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4055 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4061 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4062 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4064 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4067 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4068 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4069 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4070 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4071 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4072 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4073 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4074 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4077 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4079 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4080 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4081 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4083 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4084 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4085 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4088 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4089 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4091 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4092 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4093 option (which defaults to 0600).
4095 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4097 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4098 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4099 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4100 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4101 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4102 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4103 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4105 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4111 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4112 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4113 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4114 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4115 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4116 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4119 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4120 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4122 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4124 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4125 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4126 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4127 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4128 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4131 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4132 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4134 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4135 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4136 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4137 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4138 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4140 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4141 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4142 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4143 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4145 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4146 be the same on different OS.
4148 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4151 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4152 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4154 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4157 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4158 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4159 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4160 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4161 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4162 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4165 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4166 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4167 when Exim was called.
4169 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4170 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4172 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4173 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4174 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4175 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4177 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4178 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4179 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4180 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4183 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4184 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4185 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4187 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4188 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4189 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4191 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4194 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4195 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4196 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4197 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4198 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4199 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4200 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4201 values from the SRV records were lost.
4203 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4204 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4205 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4207 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4208 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4209 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4211 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4212 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4213 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4214 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4215 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4216 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4217 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4218 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4219 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4220 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4222 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4223 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4224 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4226 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4227 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4229 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4230 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4231 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4232 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4235 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4236 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4237 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4239 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4240 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4241 PH/23 above applies.
4243 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4244 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4245 (for which there is an explicit test).
4247 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4249 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4250 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4251 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4252 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4253 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4255 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4256 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4257 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4258 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4260 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4261 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4262 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4264 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4266 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4268 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4269 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4270 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4272 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4273 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4274 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4275 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4276 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4278 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4279 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4280 the message gets confusing).
4282 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4283 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4284 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4285 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4287 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4288 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4289 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4290 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4293 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4294 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4295 the different processes.
4297 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4299 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4301 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4302 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4304 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4305 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4307 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4308 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4309 messages matching specified criteria.
4311 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4313 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4314 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4316 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4317 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4318 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4319 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4320 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4321 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4322 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4323 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4324 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4325 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4327 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4328 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4329 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4331 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4333 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4334 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4335 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4336 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4337 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4338 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4339 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4342 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4343 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4345 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4347 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4349 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4351 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4352 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4353 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4354 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4355 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4356 size of the count of files.
4358 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4360 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4363 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4364 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4365 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4366 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4368 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4369 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4370 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4372 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4373 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4374 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4375 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4376 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4378 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4379 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4381 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4382 will now be deprecated.
4384 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4386 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4387 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4388 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4390 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4391 with very large, slow to parse queues
4393 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4395 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4397 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4398 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4399 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4402 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4403 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4404 Sieve code now uses this.
4406 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4407 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4409 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4410 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4412 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4414 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4415 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4416 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4417 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4418 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4420 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4421 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4422 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4423 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4425 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4427 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4429 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4430 is preferred over IPv4.
4432 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4433 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4434 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4435 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4436 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4437 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4438 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4440 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4441 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4442 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4444 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4446 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4447 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4448 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4449 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4450 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4451 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4452 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4453 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4454 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4455 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4456 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4458 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4459 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4460 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4466 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4468 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4469 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4471 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4472 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4473 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4475 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4477 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4480 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4483 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4484 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4485 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4488 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4489 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4491 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4492 inside the third argument.
4494 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4495 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4498 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4499 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4501 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4502 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4504 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4506 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4507 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4510 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4512 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4513 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4514 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4515 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4516 identical. For example:
4518 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4520 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4521 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4522 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4524 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4525 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4526 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4527 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4529 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4530 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4531 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4534 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4536 o fixes some comments
4537 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4538 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4539 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4540 and documents the missing references header update
4544 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4545 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4548 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4549 Electronic Mail") by including:
4551 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4553 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4554 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4555 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4556 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4557 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4559 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4561 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4563 The auto-replied keyword:
4565 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4566 message by an automatic process,
4568 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4570 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4571 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4573 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4574 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4577 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4578 to the default Received: header definition.
4580 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4582 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4583 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4584 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4586 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4587 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4588 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4590 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4591 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4592 and treats the condition as false.
4594 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4596 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4597 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4598 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4599 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4600 not changing the active code.
4602 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4603 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4605 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4606 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4608 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4611 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4612 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4613 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4614 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4615 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4616 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4617 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4618 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4619 the text comparison.
4621 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4622 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4623 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4624 The same fix has been applied.
4630 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4631 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4634 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4635 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4637 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4639 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4640 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4641 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4642 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4643 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4645 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4646 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4647 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4648 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4651 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4659 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4660 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4662 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4664 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4666 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4667 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4668 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4670 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4671 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4672 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4674 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4675 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4678 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4679 ${stat: expansion item.
4681 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4682 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4684 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4685 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4688 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4690 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4693 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4694 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4696 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4698 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4699 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4700 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4701 the end of the subprocess.
4703 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4704 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4705 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4706 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4707 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4709 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4711 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4713 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4714 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4716 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4718 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4720 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4721 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4724 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4726 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4727 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4728 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4730 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4731 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4733 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4734 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4736 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4737 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4739 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4740 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4742 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4743 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4744 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4745 contributed by a Radius user.
4747 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4748 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4750 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4751 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4753 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4756 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4757 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4760 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4761 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4762 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4763 header lines when this was not necessary.
4765 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4767 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4768 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4769 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4772 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4775 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4776 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4777 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4778 return code was incorrect.
4780 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4782 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4784 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4786 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4788 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4789 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4790 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4791 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4792 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4795 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4797 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4798 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4799 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4800 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4801 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4802 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4803 which is clearly wrong.
4805 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4807 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4808 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4809 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4812 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4813 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4815 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4817 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4818 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4820 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4821 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4823 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4824 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4826 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4827 recipients, not senders.
4829 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4830 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4832 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4834 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4836 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4837 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4838 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4839 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4841 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4843 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4844 clock is set back in time.
4846 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4847 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4849 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4850 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4852 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4853 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4856 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4857 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4860 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4863 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4865 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4866 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4867 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4869 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4870 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4871 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4872 helo verification defer as a failure.
4874 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4875 actual error message.
4881 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4883 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4884 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4885 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4886 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4888 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4890 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4891 can still be requested.
4893 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4894 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4895 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4896 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4898 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4899 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4900 circumstances, but probably never did.
4902 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4903 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4904 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4907 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4909 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4910 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4912 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4914 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4916 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4917 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4918 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4919 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4920 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4921 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4923 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4924 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4925 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4926 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4927 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4928 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4930 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4931 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4933 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4934 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4936 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4937 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4939 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4941 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4943 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4945 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4947 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4949 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4951 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4953 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4954 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4955 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4957 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4958 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4959 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4960 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4962 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4963 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4964 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4966 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4967 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4968 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4969 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4971 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4972 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4975 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4976 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4977 should work with maildirs and everything.
4979 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4980 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4982 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4985 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4986 function for BDB 4.3.
4988 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4990 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4991 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4994 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4995 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4996 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4997 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4998 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4999 formatting function string_vformat().
5001 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5002 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5003 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5004 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5005 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5006 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5007 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5008 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5010 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5011 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5014 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5015 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5017 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5018 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5019 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5020 test. It is now used for both.
5022 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5023 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5024 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5025 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5026 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5027 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5029 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5030 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5031 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5034 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5035 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5036 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5038 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5039 experimental DomainKeys support:
5041 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5042 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5043 the control was given.
5045 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5047 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5049 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5051 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5052 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5053 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5056 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5057 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5058 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5059 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5060 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5061 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5064 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5065 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5066 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5067 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5068 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5069 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5071 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5072 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5073 do -d+all out of habit.
5075 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5076 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5079 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5080 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5081 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5082 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5083 record types that Exim uses.
5085 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5086 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5087 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5088 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5089 non-existent file that was broken.
5091 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5092 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5094 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5095 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5096 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5098 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5100 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5101 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5102 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5103 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5104 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5107 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5108 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5109 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5110 at a slight CPU cost.
5112 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5113 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5115 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5118 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5120 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5121 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5127 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5128 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5130 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5132 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5134 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5135 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5137 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5138 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5139 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5140 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5141 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5142 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5145 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5146 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5147 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5148 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5151 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5152 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5153 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5154 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5155 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5156 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5157 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5160 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5161 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5163 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5164 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5165 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5166 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5167 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5168 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5170 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5171 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5172 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5173 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5175 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5178 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5179 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5181 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5182 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5183 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5184 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5187 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5189 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5190 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5192 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5193 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5194 to what was transported.)
5196 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5198 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5199 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5200 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5201 spamd_address settings.
5203 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5204 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5205 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5206 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5207 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5209 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5211 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5212 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5213 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5214 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5215 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5217 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5218 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5220 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5221 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5222 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5223 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5224 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5225 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5226 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5229 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5230 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5231 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5232 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5233 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5234 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5235 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5238 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5240 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5241 driver and ACL definitions.
5243 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5244 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5246 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5247 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5248 understands it better than I do:
5250 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5251 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5253 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5254 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5255 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5256 => three warnings about OTP not working
5257 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5259 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5260 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5261 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5262 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5264 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5265 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5267 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5268 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5269 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5271 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5272 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5275 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5276 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5279 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5280 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5281 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5283 warn !verify = sender
5284 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5286 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5287 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5289 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5291 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5292 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5294 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5295 nomenclature these days.)
5297 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5298 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5300 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5301 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5302 . First host does not offer TLS;
5303 . First host accepts first address;
5304 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5305 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5306 . Second host accepts second address.
5307 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5308 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5311 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5312 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5313 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5314 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5315 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5317 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5318 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5320 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5321 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5323 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5324 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5325 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5327 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5328 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5331 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5333 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5334 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5335 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5336 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5337 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5338 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5339 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5341 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5342 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5343 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5344 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5345 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5347 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5348 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5351 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5352 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5353 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5354 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5355 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5356 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5358 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5360 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5361 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5362 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5363 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5364 printable escape sequences.
5366 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5367 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5370 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5371 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5374 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5375 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5376 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5377 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5378 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5380 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5381 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5382 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5384 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5386 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5387 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5390 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5391 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5392 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5393 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5394 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5395 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5396 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5397 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5398 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5401 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5402 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5403 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5404 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5408 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5409 ----------------------------------------
5411 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5412 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5413 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5414 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5415 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5416 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5419 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5420 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5421 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5422 historical information.
5428 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5430 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5431 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5433 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5434 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5437 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5438 filter fails to execute.
5440 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5441 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5442 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5443 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5444 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5446 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5448 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5449 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5450 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5451 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5453 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5454 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5455 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5456 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5457 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5459 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5461 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5463 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5464 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5465 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5466 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5468 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5469 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5470 sender verification.
5472 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5473 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5475 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5477 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5480 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5481 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5483 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5484 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5486 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5487 information about exactly what failed.
5489 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5491 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5492 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5493 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5495 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5496 It is now set to "smtps".
5498 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5499 ignore_target_hosts.
5501 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5502 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5503 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5504 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5507 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5508 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5509 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5511 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5512 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5513 wake it up if nothing else does.
5515 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5516 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5517 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5520 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5521 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5523 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5525 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5526 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5527 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5528 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5529 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5530 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5531 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5532 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5534 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5535 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5536 than one IP address.
5538 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5539 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5540 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5541 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5543 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5544 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5545 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5546 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5547 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5550 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5551 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5552 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5553 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5555 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5556 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5559 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5560 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5561 $sender_host_address.
5563 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5564 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5565 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5566 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5567 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5570 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5572 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5573 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5575 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5576 just the host names, not the priorities.
5578 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5579 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5580 controlled by a keyword.
5582 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5583 multiple records are returned.
5585 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5586 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5589 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5591 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5592 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5594 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5595 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5596 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5598 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5600 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5602 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5604 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5605 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5606 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5607 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5608 because the tests only now provoked it.
5610 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5611 (this can affect the format of dates).
5613 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5614 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5615 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5616 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5618 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5620 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5621 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5622 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5623 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5625 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5626 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5627 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5629 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5632 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5633 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5634 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5635 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5636 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5637 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5640 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5641 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5642 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5645 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5646 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5647 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5649 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5650 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5651 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5652 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5653 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5654 so I produce this patch..."
5656 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5657 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5660 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5661 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5662 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5663 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5666 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5668 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5669 long debug lines gets shown.
5671 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5672 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5674 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5676 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5677 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5678 of $primary_hostname.
5680 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5681 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5682 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5683 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5684 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5685 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5686 by change 4.50/55 above.
5688 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5689 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5690 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5691 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5692 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5693 running as the user.
5696 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5697 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5698 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5701 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5702 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5704 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5705 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5706 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5707 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5708 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5710 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5711 This has been fixed.
5713 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5714 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5715 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5716 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5719 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5721 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5722 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5723 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5724 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5726 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5727 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5729 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5730 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5731 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5733 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5734 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5735 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5738 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5739 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5740 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5742 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5743 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5744 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5745 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5747 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5748 during host lookups.
5750 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5751 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5753 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5755 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5756 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5757 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5758 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5759 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5762 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5763 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5765 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5766 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5767 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5769 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5771 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5772 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5773 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5774 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5775 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5776 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5779 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5780 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5781 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5782 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5783 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5785 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5788 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5790 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5791 "vacation" handling.
5793 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5794 OS variants using glibc.
5796 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5799 ----------------------------------------------------
5800 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5801 ----------------------------------------------------
5807 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5808 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5811 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5812 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5815 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5816 filter fails to execute.
5818 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5819 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5820 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5821 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5822 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5824 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5825 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5826 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5827 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5829 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5830 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5831 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5832 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5833 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5835 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5837 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5838 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5839 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5840 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5842 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5843 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5844 sender verification.
5846 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5847 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5849 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5850 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5852 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5853 ignore_target_hosts.
5855 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5856 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5857 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5858 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5861 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5862 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5863 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5865 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5866 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5867 wake it up if nothing else does.
5869 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5870 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5871 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5874 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5875 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5877 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5879 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5880 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5883 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5884 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5887 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5888 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5889 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5890 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5891 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5894 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5895 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5898 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5899 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5900 $sender_host_address.
5902 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5904 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5905 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5906 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5908 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5911 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5912 (this can affect the format of dates).
5914 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5915 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5916 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5917 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5919 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5920 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5921 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5923 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5924 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5925 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5926 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5928 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5929 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5930 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5932 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5935 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5936 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5937 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5938 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5939 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5940 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5943 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5944 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5945 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5946 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5949 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5950 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5951 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5952 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5953 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5954 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5955 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5957 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5958 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5959 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5960 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5961 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5962 running as the user.
5965 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5966 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5967 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5970 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5971 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5972 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5973 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5974 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5976 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5977 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5978 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5979 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5982 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5983 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5984 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5985 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5986 because the tests only now provoked it.
5992 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5993 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5994 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5995 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5996 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5997 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5998 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6000 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6001 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6004 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6006 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6008 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6009 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6012 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6013 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6014 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6015 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6016 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6018 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6019 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6021 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6023 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6025 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6028 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6029 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6031 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6032 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6033 affecting debugging statements).
6035 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6037 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6038 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6039 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6040 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6041 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6042 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6043 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6044 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6045 after the received time, and all would be well.
6047 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6048 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6049 condition in an expansion string.
6051 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6053 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6054 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6055 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6056 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6057 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6058 job under whatever limits there are.
6060 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6062 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6065 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6066 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6067 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6068 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6071 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6072 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6073 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6074 binary data in such strings.
6076 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6078 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6079 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6080 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6081 failure, which is pointless.
6083 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6085 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6087 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6088 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6089 Sender: header lines.
6091 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6092 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6093 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6095 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6096 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6097 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6098 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6099 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6102 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6103 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6104 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6105 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6106 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6108 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6109 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6110 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6113 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6114 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6116 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6117 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6119 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6121 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6123 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6125 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6128 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6130 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6132 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6133 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6134 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6135 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6137 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6138 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6144 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6145 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6146 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6148 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6149 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6150 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6151 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6152 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6153 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6155 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6156 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6157 verification failure".
6159 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6160 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6161 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6162 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6164 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6165 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6166 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6167 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6168 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6169 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6170 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6171 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6172 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6173 treated as a timeout.
6175 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6176 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6177 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6178 not set for Exim filters).
6180 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6181 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6182 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6184 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6186 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6187 try to make them clearer.
6189 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6190 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6192 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6194 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6196 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6197 only the Cygwin environment.
6199 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6200 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6201 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6202 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6203 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6205 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6206 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6207 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6208 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6209 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6210 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6211 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6213 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6214 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6216 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6218 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6219 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6220 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6222 To: susanne@some.where
6224 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6225 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6226 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6227 of addresses in From: header lines).
6229 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6230 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6231 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6233 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6234 treated as non-personal.
6236 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6237 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6239 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6241 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6243 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6244 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6245 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6247 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6248 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6250 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6251 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6252 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6253 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6254 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6255 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6257 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6258 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6259 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6260 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6261 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6262 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6263 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6264 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6266 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6268 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6269 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6271 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6272 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6273 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6275 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6276 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6278 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6279 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6280 rather than long int.
6282 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6284 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6290 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6291 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6292 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6293 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6294 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6295 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6301 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6302 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6304 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6305 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6306 socklen_t is defined.
6308 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6311 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6314 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6315 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6316 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6317 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6318 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6320 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6321 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6322 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6323 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6325 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6326 of flapping under certain conditions.
6328 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6329 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6330 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6332 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6334 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6336 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6337 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6338 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6339 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6341 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6342 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6343 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6344 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6345 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6346 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6347 preserved with the message after it was received.
6349 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6350 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6351 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6352 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6353 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6354 test suite worked just fine.
6356 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6357 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6358 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6360 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6361 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6364 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6365 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6366 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6367 does not fully solve it.
6369 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6370 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6371 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6372 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6373 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6375 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6376 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6377 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6379 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6380 string, for example:
6382 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6384 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6385 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6386 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6387 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6388 the routers could not see them.
6390 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6391 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6393 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6394 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6397 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6398 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6399 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6400 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6401 that needed quoting.
6403 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6404 was not being matched caselessly.
6406 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6409 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6410 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6411 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6412 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6413 when use_sender is false.
6415 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6417 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6419 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6421 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6422 the configuration file.
6424 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6425 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6427 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6429 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6430 bytes in the message body.
6432 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6433 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6436 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6438 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6440 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6441 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6442 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6443 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6450 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6451 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6453 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6454 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6455 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6456 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6457 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6459 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6460 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6462 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6463 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6464 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6466 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6467 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6468 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6470 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6473 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6474 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6475 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6476 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6477 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6478 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6479 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6485 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6486 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6487 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6488 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6489 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6490 default (and expected) setting.
6492 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6493 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6494 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6495 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6497 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6498 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6500 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6503 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6504 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6505 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6506 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6507 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6508 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6510 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6511 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6512 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6514 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6515 part (NOT match_host).
6517 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6519 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6520 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6521 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6522 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6523 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6524 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6525 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6526 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6527 the same named file.
6529 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6530 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6533 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6534 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6535 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6536 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6539 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6540 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6541 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6543 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6545 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6547 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6549 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6550 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6552 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6553 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6554 before starting the TLS session.
6556 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6558 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6559 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6561 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6562 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6563 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6564 colon in the middle).
6570 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6571 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6572 multiple configurations are in use.
6574 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6575 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6576 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6577 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6578 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6579 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6581 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6582 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6584 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6585 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6586 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6588 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6589 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6592 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6593 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6595 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6597 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6598 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6600 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6608 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6609 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6610 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6611 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6612 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6614 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6617 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6618 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6619 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6620 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6621 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6622 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6624 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6625 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6626 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6627 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6628 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6629 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6630 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6633 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6634 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6635 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6636 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6637 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6639 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6641 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6642 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6643 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6645 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6647 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6648 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6649 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6652 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6653 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6655 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6656 Three changes have been made:
6658 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6659 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6660 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6661 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6662 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6664 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6667 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6668 the modified behaviour.
6674 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6677 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6678 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6680 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6681 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6682 try to track down a specific problem.
6684 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6685 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6686 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6688 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6691 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6692 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6693 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6694 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6695 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6696 some earlier ones do not.
6698 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6700 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6701 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6702 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6703 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6704 address literals are enabled, of course).
6706 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6708 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6709 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6710 by a command such as
6714 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6716 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6718 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6719 remained set. It is now erased.
6721 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6722 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6724 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6725 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6726 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6727 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6728 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6729 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6730 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6731 appropriate error code.
6733 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6734 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6735 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6736 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6737 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6738 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6740 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6741 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6742 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6744 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6745 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6746 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6747 terminate the header.
6749 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6750 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6751 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6753 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6754 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6755 (4.30/29). In particular:
6757 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6760 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6761 to write a maildirsize file.
6763 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6764 the transport, the new value overrides.
6766 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6769 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6770 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6771 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6774 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6775 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6776 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6779 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6780 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6781 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6783 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6784 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6787 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6788 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6789 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6791 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6793 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6795 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6797 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6798 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6801 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6802 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6803 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6804 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6805 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6806 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6807 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6810 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6811 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6812 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6813 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6814 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6817 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6818 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6819 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6820 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6821 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6822 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6823 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6824 cached value only when the same options are set.
6826 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6828 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6829 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6830 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6831 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6832 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6834 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6835 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6836 it is clearly obsolete.
6838 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6841 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6842 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6843 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6846 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6847 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6848 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6849 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6850 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6852 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6853 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6854 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6855 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6857 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6859 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6861 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6862 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6865 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6866 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6867 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6868 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6869 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6870 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6873 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6874 with the -f command-line option.
6876 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6877 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6878 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6879 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6880 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6881 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6883 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6884 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6887 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6888 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6889 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6890 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6891 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6892 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6893 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6894 buffer is too small.
6896 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6897 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6899 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6900 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6901 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6902 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6903 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6904 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6905 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6906 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6907 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6909 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6910 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6911 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6913 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6914 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6917 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6918 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6919 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6920 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6921 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6923 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6924 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6925 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6926 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6929 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6931 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6933 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6934 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6936 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6937 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6938 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6940 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6941 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6942 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6943 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6944 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6946 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6947 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6948 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6949 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6950 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6951 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6952 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6954 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6955 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6956 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6957 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6958 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6959 the test of how many are available.
6961 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6962 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6963 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6964 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6965 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6966 new message is started.
6968 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6969 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6971 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6972 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6974 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6975 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6976 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6979 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6980 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6981 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6982 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6983 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6984 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6985 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6987 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6988 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6989 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6990 interpreted as octal.
6992 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6995 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6996 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6997 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6998 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6999 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7000 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7002 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7003 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7004 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7005 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7007 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7008 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7009 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7010 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7012 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7013 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7016 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7017 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7019 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7021 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7022 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7023 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7024 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7026 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7027 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7028 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7029 supplied", which is not helpful.
7031 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7032 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7033 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7035 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7036 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7037 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7038 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7039 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7040 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7041 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7042 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7044 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7045 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7046 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7047 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7048 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7050 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7051 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7052 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7053 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7054 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7055 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7057 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7058 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7059 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7061 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7063 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7064 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7065 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7068 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7070 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7071 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7072 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7073 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7074 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7075 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7076 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7077 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7079 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7080 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7081 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7082 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7083 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7085 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7088 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7089 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7090 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7091 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7092 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7093 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7094 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7095 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7096 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7102 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7103 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7104 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7106 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7109 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7110 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7111 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7113 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7114 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7115 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7116 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7117 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7118 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7120 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7121 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7122 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7123 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7124 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7125 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7126 the Exim test suite.
7128 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7129 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7130 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7131 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7133 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7134 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7135 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7136 specify it in this variable.
7138 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7139 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7140 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7141 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7143 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7144 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7145 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7146 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7148 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7149 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7150 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7151 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7152 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7154 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7156 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7159 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7160 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7161 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7162 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7163 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7165 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7166 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7168 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7169 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7170 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7171 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7172 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7174 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7175 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7177 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7178 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7179 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7181 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7182 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7184 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7185 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7187 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7188 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7189 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7191 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7192 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7194 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7195 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7196 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7197 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7199 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7201 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7202 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7203 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7204 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7206 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7208 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7209 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7211 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7213 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7214 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7215 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7216 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7217 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7218 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7220 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7222 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7223 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7226 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7228 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7229 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7231 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7232 550 Sender verify failed
7234 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7235 the final line of the response.
7237 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7238 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7239 all other user lookups.
7241 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7244 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7245 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7246 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7247 result into an int without checking.
7249 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7250 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7251 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7253 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7254 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7255 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7256 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7258 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7261 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7262 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7264 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7265 to the empty sender.
7267 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7268 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7269 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7270 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7271 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7272 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7273 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7276 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7277 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7278 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7279 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7282 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7283 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7285 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7288 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7289 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7291 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7293 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7294 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7297 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7298 as soon as it is encountered.
7300 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7302 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7305 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7306 recognizes a tab character.
7308 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7309 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7310 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7311 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7313 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7315 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7318 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7320 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7322 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7323 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7326 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7327 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7328 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7329 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7330 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7332 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7333 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7335 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7336 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7337 list (.included file names were always shown).
7339 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7340 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7341 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7344 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7345 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7347 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7349 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7351 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7353 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7354 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7355 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7356 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7357 failures to open the logs.
7359 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7360 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7361 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7362 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7363 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7364 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7365 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7371 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7372 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7373 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7376 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7377 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7378 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7380 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7381 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7382 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7384 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7385 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7386 causing some misleading effects.
7388 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7389 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7390 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7392 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7393 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7394 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7395 queue-runner function directly.
7401 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7404 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7405 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7406 was always written to the default place.
7408 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7409 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7410 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7412 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7414 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7416 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7417 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7418 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7420 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7421 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7424 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7425 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7426 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7428 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7429 command line option is disabled.
7431 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7432 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7434 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7436 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7438 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7439 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7441 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7443 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7444 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7445 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7446 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7447 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7448 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7450 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7451 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7454 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7455 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7457 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7458 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7460 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7461 received was valid base64.
7463 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7464 name of the variable that was being set.
7466 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7468 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7469 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7470 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7471 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7472 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7473 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7475 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7477 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7478 nor realm was specified.
7480 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7481 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7482 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7483 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7485 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7486 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7487 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7489 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7490 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7491 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7493 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7494 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7495 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7496 some systems use these upper case variants.
7498 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7499 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7500 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7501 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7503 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7505 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7506 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7508 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7509 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7512 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7514 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7515 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7516 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7517 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7519 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7522 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7523 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7524 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7526 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7527 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7529 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7530 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7531 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7532 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7534 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7535 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7536 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7538 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7540 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7541 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7542 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7543 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7546 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7547 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7548 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7550 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7552 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7553 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7555 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7556 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7558 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7559 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7560 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7561 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7562 when emails are that large.
7569 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7570 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7572 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7573 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7574 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7576 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7577 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7578 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7580 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7581 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7582 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7583 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7584 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7586 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7587 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7588 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7589 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7590 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7593 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7594 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7595 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7596 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7597 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7598 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7599 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7600 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7601 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7602 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7603 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7604 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7605 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7606 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7608 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7609 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7612 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7613 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7614 error should be diagnosed.
7616 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7617 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7618 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7619 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7620 appeared instead of "NULL".
7622 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7623 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7624 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7625 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7626 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7627 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7630 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7631 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7632 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7638 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7639 or receiver verification errors.
7641 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7644 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7645 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7646 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7647 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7649 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7650 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7651 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7652 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7653 shouldn't happen again.
7655 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7656 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7657 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7659 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7660 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7662 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7664 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7665 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7667 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7668 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7671 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7672 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7673 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7675 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7676 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7677 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7678 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7680 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7681 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7682 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7683 to define what should happen).
7685 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7686 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7687 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7689 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7691 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7693 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7694 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7696 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7697 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7698 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7699 structure in all cases.
7701 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7702 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7703 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7704 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7706 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7707 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7710 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7711 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7713 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7714 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7716 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7717 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7718 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7720 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7721 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7722 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7724 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7725 the book and for uniformity.
7727 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7729 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7730 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7731 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7732 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7733 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7734 non-existent command as the problem.
7736 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7737 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7738 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7740 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7742 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7743 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7744 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7746 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7747 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7748 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7749 timestamps using strftime().
7751 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7752 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7754 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7755 transport-time rewrites.
7757 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7758 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7759 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7760 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7762 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7763 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7765 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7766 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7767 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7768 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7771 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7772 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7773 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7774 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7775 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7776 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7777 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7779 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7780 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7781 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7782 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7783 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7785 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7786 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7787 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7788 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7789 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7790 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7791 remaining text gets split now.
7793 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7794 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7795 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7796 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7798 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7799 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7800 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7801 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7804 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7805 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7806 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7807 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7808 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7809 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7810 passed through if needed.
7812 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7813 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7814 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7815 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7816 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7817 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7819 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7820 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7821 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7822 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7823 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7825 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7826 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7827 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7828 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7829 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7831 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7832 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7835 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7836 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7837 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7838 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7839 mayhem of various kinds.
7841 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7842 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7843 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7844 the right test for positive values.
7846 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7847 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7848 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7849 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7850 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7851 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7852 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7853 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7854 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7855 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7858 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7861 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7862 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7865 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7866 the existing equality matching.
7868 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7869 dealing with inode numbers.
7871 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7872 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7873 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7875 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7876 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7877 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7878 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7881 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7882 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7883 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7884 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7885 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7886 relay addresses has also been removed.
7888 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7890 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7891 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7892 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7894 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7895 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7896 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7897 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7898 processing applies to CR:
7900 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7901 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7903 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7904 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7905 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7906 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7908 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7909 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7910 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7912 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7913 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7914 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7915 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7916 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7917 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7920 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7923 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7924 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7925 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7926 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7929 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7931 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7933 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7935 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7936 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7937 not considered personal.
7939 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7941 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7943 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7945 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7946 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7947 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7948 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7949 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7950 header lines, and spool format errors.
7952 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7953 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7954 for more flexibility.
7956 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7957 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7958 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7960 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7963 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7964 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7965 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7966 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7967 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7968 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7969 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7970 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7971 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7973 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7974 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7975 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7976 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7977 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7978 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7979 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7981 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7982 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7983 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7985 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7986 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7987 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7988 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7989 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7990 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7991 instead of killing the process with assert().
7993 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7994 than Unicode encoding.
7996 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7997 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7998 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7999 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8001 77. Added process_log_path.
8003 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8004 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8006 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8007 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8009 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8010 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8011 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8013 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8014 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8015 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8016 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8017 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8020 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8021 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8024 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8025 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8026 they will be used during message reception.
8032 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.