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.
6 Since Exim version 4.94
7 -----------------------
9 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
10 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
11 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
12 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
14 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
15 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
16 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
17 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
18 so could be handling tainted values.
20 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
21 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
22 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
24 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
25 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
26 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
29 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
30 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
31 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
32 to align better with RFC 6125.
34 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
35 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
36 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
37 by adding a relase action in that path.
39 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
40 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
41 dynamically-created buffers.
47 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
48 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
49 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
51 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
53 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
54 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
57 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
58 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
59 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
61 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
63 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
65 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
66 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
67 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
69 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
70 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
71 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
73 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
74 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
76 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
77 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
80 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
81 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
82 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
83 should both provide the file and set the option.
84 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
86 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
87 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
89 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
90 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
91 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
92 Authentication-Results: header.
94 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
95 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
96 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
97 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
99 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
100 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
101 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
102 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
103 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
104 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
105 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
107 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
108 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
109 copies while it is still usable.
111 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
112 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
113 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
115 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
116 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
118 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
119 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
120 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
121 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
123 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
124 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
125 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
128 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
129 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
130 - the pipe transport command
131 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
132 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
134 - paths used by single-key lookups
135 Previously this was permitted.
137 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
138 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
139 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
140 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
142 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
143 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
144 support larger malloc requests.
146 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
147 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
148 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
149 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
151 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
152 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
153 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
154 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
157 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
158 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
159 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
160 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
161 data being length-specified.
163 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
164 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
165 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
166 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
168 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
169 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
170 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
171 not being properly tracked.
173 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
174 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
175 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
176 minute could be seen.
178 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
179 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
180 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
182 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
183 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
185 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
186 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
189 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
191 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
192 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
194 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
195 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
196 filesystem as sufficient validation.
198 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
199 argument is supplied.
201 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
202 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
203 access under Exim's current working directory.
205 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
206 Previously no event was raised.
208 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
209 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
210 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
213 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
214 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
215 the size of the signature hash.
217 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
218 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
220 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
221 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
222 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
223 dropped between messages.
225 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
226 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
227 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
228 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
230 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
231 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
232 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
233 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
234 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
235 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
236 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
237 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
238 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
240 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
241 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
242 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
244 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
245 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
252 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
253 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
255 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
256 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
259 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
262 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
264 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
266 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
267 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
269 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
270 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
271 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
272 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
273 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
274 suitably configured).
276 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
277 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
279 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
280 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
283 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
284 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
286 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
287 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
288 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
289 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
292 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
293 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
294 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
296 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
299 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
300 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
302 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
303 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
304 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
305 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
308 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
309 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
310 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
311 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
314 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
315 shared (NFS) environment.
317 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
318 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
321 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
322 on some platforms for bit 31.
324 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
325 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
326 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
327 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
328 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
329 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
330 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
331 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
333 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
335 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
336 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
338 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
339 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
342 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
343 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
346 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
347 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
348 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
351 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
352 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
353 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
355 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
356 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
357 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
358 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
359 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
361 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
364 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
365 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
366 be requested on all coneections.
368 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
369 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
371 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
373 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
374 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
375 one for these; the option was ignored.
377 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
378 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
379 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
380 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
382 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
383 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
384 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
387 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
388 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
389 error ignored was made.
391 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
393 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
394 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
395 values, to catch one form of exploit.
397 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
398 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
399 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
401 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
402 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
405 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
406 them in our smtp response.
408 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
409 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
410 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
411 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
412 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
414 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
415 link count into consideration.
417 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
418 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
420 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
421 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
422 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
425 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
427 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
429 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
431 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
432 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
433 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
434 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
436 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
438 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
439 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
442 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
443 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
444 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
446 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
447 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
448 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
450 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
451 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
452 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
453 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
454 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
455 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
456 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
457 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
459 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
460 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
461 resulted in an indefinite loop.
463 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
464 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
465 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
471 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
472 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
474 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
475 non-signal-safe functions being used.
477 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
478 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
479 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
481 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
482 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
483 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
485 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
486 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
487 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
488 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
489 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
492 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
493 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
495 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
496 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
497 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
498 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
499 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
500 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
501 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
503 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
504 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
506 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
509 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
510 Previously this would segfault.
512 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
515 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
516 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
517 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
518 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
519 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
520 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
522 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
524 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
525 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
526 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
527 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
529 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
531 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
532 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
533 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
534 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
536 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
538 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
540 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
541 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
542 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
544 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
545 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
546 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
548 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
550 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
551 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
552 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
553 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
555 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
556 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
557 promised '?' replacement.
559 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
561 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
562 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
563 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
564 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
565 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
567 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
568 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
569 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
571 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
572 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
573 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
575 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
576 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
577 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
579 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
580 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
581 hope that is portable enough.
583 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
584 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
585 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
586 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
588 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
589 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
590 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
592 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
593 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
594 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
595 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
597 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
598 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
600 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
601 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
602 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
603 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
605 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
606 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
607 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
609 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
610 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
611 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
612 the previous G, M, k.
614 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
615 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
618 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
619 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
620 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
621 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
623 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
624 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
626 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
627 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
628 off past the nul-terimation.
630 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
631 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
632 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
633 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
634 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
636 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
638 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
639 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
640 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
643 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
644 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
646 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
647 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
648 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
650 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
651 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
652 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
654 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
655 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
661 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
662 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
663 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
664 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
665 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
666 be defined in redis_servers.
668 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
669 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
671 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
672 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
673 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
674 extant use locations.
676 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
677 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
679 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
680 Previously only the last row was returned.
682 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
683 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
684 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
685 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
688 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
689 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
690 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
691 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
692 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
693 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
694 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
695 Main pool for expansions.
696 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
697 active in the testsuite.
698 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
700 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
701 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
702 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
703 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
706 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
707 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
710 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
711 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
712 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
714 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
715 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
716 ClamAV interface method is removed.
718 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
719 rows affected is given instead).
721 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
722 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
724 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
725 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
726 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
727 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
728 for all multi-message initiating connections.
730 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
731 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
732 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
734 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
735 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
736 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
737 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
740 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
741 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
742 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
745 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
747 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
748 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
750 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
751 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
752 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
754 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
755 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
756 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
759 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
760 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
762 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
763 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
764 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
766 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
767 for the build is renamed.
769 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
770 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
771 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
773 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
774 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
775 result replacing the original.
777 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
778 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
779 and the resources needed to be freed.
781 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
783 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
786 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
787 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
788 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
789 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
791 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
792 length value. Previously this would segfault.
794 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
795 newer versions of the scanner.
797 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
798 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
799 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
800 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
801 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
802 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
803 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
805 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
806 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
807 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
808 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
809 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
810 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
811 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
812 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
813 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
814 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
816 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
817 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
819 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
821 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
822 allows proper process termination in container environments.
824 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
825 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
827 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
828 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
829 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
831 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
832 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
833 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
834 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
836 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
837 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
840 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
841 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
843 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
844 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
845 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
846 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
847 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
849 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
850 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
853 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
854 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
856 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
859 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
860 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
861 "bare" representation.
863 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
864 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
865 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
866 corrupted the output.
872 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
873 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
874 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
875 pairs of long lines into single ones.
877 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
878 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
880 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
881 This permits better logging.
883 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
884 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
885 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
886 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
887 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
888 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
890 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
891 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
894 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
895 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
896 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
898 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
899 than 255 are no longer allowed.
901 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
902 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
903 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
904 client, there is no benefit for these.
905 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
906 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
907 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
910 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
911 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
913 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
914 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
915 erroneously found still-pending ones.
917 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
918 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
920 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
921 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
922 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
923 signature and again for transmission.
925 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
926 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
927 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
929 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
930 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
931 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
932 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
933 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
934 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
935 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
937 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
938 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
939 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
940 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
942 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
943 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
944 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
945 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
946 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
947 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
950 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
951 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
952 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
953 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
956 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
957 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
958 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
959 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
962 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
963 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
966 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
967 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
968 banner-time rejection.
970 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
973 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
974 is the name of a transport.
977 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
979 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
980 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
982 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
983 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
984 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
987 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
988 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
989 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
990 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
992 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
993 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
994 initial verify call returned a defer.
996 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
997 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
999 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1000 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1002 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1003 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1005 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1006 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1008 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1009 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1012 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1013 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1015 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1016 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1017 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1019 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1020 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1021 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1022 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1024 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1025 and confused the parent.
1027 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1028 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1030 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1033 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1034 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1035 out-of-order delivery.
1037 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1038 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1039 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1042 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1043 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1046 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1047 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1048 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1050 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1051 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1052 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1053 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1054 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1055 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1057 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1058 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1059 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1061 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1062 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1063 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1065 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1066 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1067 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1068 though a different problem.
1074 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1075 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1077 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1079 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1080 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1082 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1083 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1085 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1086 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1087 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1088 before acknowledging the chunk.
1090 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1091 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1092 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1094 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1095 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1096 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1099 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1100 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1101 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1103 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1104 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1106 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1107 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1108 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1109 body hash calculated value.
1111 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1112 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1113 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1115 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1117 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1118 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1120 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1121 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1122 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1124 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1125 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1126 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1127 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1128 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1129 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1131 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1132 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1133 past that check, despite the cost.
1135 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1136 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1137 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1139 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1140 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1141 TLS library to consume.
1143 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1145 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1147 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1148 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1149 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1150 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1151 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1152 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1153 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1155 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1157 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1159 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1160 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1161 should be warning-free.
1163 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1165 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1166 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1168 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1169 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1170 general solution here.
1172 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1173 already-broken messages in the queue.
1175 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1177 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1183 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1184 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1186 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1187 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1188 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1190 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1191 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1192 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1193 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1194 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1195 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1196 if one fails this test.
1197 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1198 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1200 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1201 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1203 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1204 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1206 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1207 in rewrites and routers.
1209 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1210 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1212 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1213 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1215 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1217 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1220 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1221 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1222 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1223 connection after a verify cache hit.
1224 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1226 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1227 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1229 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1230 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1231 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1232 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1233 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1235 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1236 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1238 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1239 Previously they were not counted.
1241 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1242 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1243 that needed the lookup.
1245 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1246 distinguished as "(=".
1248 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1249 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1251 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1253 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1254 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1256 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1257 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1259 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1260 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1263 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1264 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1265 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1266 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1268 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1270 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1271 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1272 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1274 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1275 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1276 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1279 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1280 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1281 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1284 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1285 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1286 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1288 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1289 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1292 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1294 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1295 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1297 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1298 are not in the system include path.
1300 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1301 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1302 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1303 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1305 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1306 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1307 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1309 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1311 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1312 an incoming connection.
1314 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1317 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1318 fallback to "prime256v1".
1320 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1321 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1327 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1328 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1329 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1330 client dropping the TLS connection.
1332 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1333 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1335 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1336 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1337 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1338 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1341 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1342 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1343 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1344 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1345 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1346 check on the next write.
1348 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1349 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1350 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1351 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1352 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1354 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1355 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1357 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1358 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1359 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1361 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1362 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1363 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1364 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1366 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1367 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1369 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1370 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1372 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1373 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1374 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1377 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1379 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1381 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1383 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1384 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1386 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1387 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1389 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1391 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1392 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1394 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1396 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1397 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1399 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1401 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1402 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1403 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1404 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1405 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1406 they will retry in-clear.
1407 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1408 at installation time.
1410 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1411 with the $config_file variable.
1413 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1414 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1415 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1416 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1417 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1419 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1420 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1421 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1422 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1423 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1425 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1427 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1428 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1429 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1430 list order is no longer honoured.
1432 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1433 for DKIM processing.
1435 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1436 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1438 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1439 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1440 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1441 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1443 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1444 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1446 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1447 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1449 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1450 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1452 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1454 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1455 cached by the daemon.
1457 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1458 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1460 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1461 keys are given for lookup.
1463 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1464 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1465 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1466 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1468 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1469 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1470 server-side so match that on older versions.
1472 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1473 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1474 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1476 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1477 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1479 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1480 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1481 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1482 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1483 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1484 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1485 initial truncated version.
1487 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1489 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1491 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1492 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1494 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1496 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1498 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1499 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1502 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1503 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1506 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1507 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1509 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1510 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1513 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1514 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1515 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1517 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1518 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1519 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1520 extraction. Accept either.
1526 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1529 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1531 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1534 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1535 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1536 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1537 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1539 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1540 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1541 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1543 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1544 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1545 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1548 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1551 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1552 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1553 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1554 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1555 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1557 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1558 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1559 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1561 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1563 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1564 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1566 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1567 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1569 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1572 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1573 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1575 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1576 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1577 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1579 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1580 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1581 specify a port-range.
1583 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1584 timeout value per server.
1586 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1587 now have the list separator specified.
1589 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1592 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1595 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1597 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1598 rather than the verbs used.
1600 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1601 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1603 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1605 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1606 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1608 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1609 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1611 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1612 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1614 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1616 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1618 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1619 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1620 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1621 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1623 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1625 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1626 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1628 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1629 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1631 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1633 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1635 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1637 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1638 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1640 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1641 added for tls authenticator.
1643 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1649 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1650 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1651 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1652 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1653 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1654 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1655 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1657 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1658 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1659 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1660 function when detected.
1662 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1663 cause callback expansion.
1665 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1666 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1667 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1668 instead of bool when processing it.
1670 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1671 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1673 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1675 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1677 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1679 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1680 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1682 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1683 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1684 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1685 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1686 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1687 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1689 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1690 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1693 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1694 version 3.3.6 or later.
1696 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1697 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1698 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1699 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1700 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1701 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1704 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1705 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1707 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1708 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1709 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1712 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1713 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1714 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1716 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1717 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1719 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1720 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1723 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1725 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1726 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1728 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1729 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1732 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1734 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1737 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1738 output list separator was used.
1743 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1744 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1747 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1748 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1750 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1752 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1753 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1759 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1761 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1762 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1763 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1764 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1765 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1766 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1768 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1769 utilities have not been installed.
1771 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1772 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1774 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1775 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1777 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1778 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1779 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1780 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1782 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1784 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1785 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1787 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1790 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1792 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1793 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1794 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1796 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1797 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1798 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1799 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1800 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1801 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1803 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1805 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1806 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1808 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1811 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1813 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1815 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1816 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1818 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1819 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1821 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1823 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1825 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1826 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1828 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1829 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1830 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1832 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1833 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1834 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1837 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1839 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1840 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1843 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1844 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1847 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1848 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1850 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1851 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1853 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1855 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1856 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1857 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1859 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1860 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1862 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1863 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1866 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1867 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1868 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1870 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1872 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1873 Christian Aistleitner.
1875 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1877 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1878 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1880 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1881 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1883 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1884 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1886 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1887 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1889 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1890 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1892 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1893 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1894 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1896 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1898 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1899 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1902 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1904 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1905 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1912 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1914 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1915 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1917 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1920 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1921 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1924 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1926 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1927 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1928 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1929 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1930 using channel bindings instead).
1932 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1933 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1934 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1935 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1936 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1939 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1941 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1943 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1944 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1946 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1947 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1948 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1950 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1952 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1954 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1955 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1957 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1959 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1961 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1963 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1964 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1966 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1968 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1969 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1972 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1973 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1975 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1976 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1979 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1981 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1983 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1984 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1986 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1989 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1990 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1992 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1993 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1995 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1997 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1999 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2002 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2005 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2007 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2008 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2009 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2010 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2012 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2014 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2015 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2016 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2017 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2020 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2021 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2022 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2024 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2025 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2026 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2027 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2029 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2030 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2031 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2032 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2033 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2034 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2035 delivery, as in LMTP.
2037 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2038 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2040 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2042 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2046 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2047 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2048 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2049 username as equal to the username.
2051 This change corrects that bug.
2053 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2054 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2055 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2057 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2059 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2060 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2061 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2062 NULL dereference and crash.
2064 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2066 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2067 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2068 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2070 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2072 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2073 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2074 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2075 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2076 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2077 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2078 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2079 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2080 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2081 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2082 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2084 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2085 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2087 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2088 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2091 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2092 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2093 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2094 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2095 an empty string is now equivalent.
2097 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2098 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2099 not performing validation itself.
2101 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2102 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2104 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2107 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2109 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2110 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2111 other false fix of the same issue.
2112 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2115 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2116 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2118 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2119 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2120 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2122 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2123 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2124 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2126 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2128 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2130 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2131 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2133 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2136 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2137 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2138 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2139 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2140 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2142 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2143 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2145 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2146 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2149 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2150 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2151 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2152 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2154 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2156 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2157 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2158 from multiple comments on this bug.
2160 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2162 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2163 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2166 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2167 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2169 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2170 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2176 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2178 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2184 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2185 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2186 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2188 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2190 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2193 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2195 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2197 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2199 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2200 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2202 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2203 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2205 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2206 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2208 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2209 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2210 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2212 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2214 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2215 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2217 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2219 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2221 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2222 non-compliant senders.
2223 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2225 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2226 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2227 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2229 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2230 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2231 in spool file corruption.
2233 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2234 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2235 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2238 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2239 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2240 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2242 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2243 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2245 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2247 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2249 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2251 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2252 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2253 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2255 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2256 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2257 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2258 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2260 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2261 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2263 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2264 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2265 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2266 resolver implementation change.
2268 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2269 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2271 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2273 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2275 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2276 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2278 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2279 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2281 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2282 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2284 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2285 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2286 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2287 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2288 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2290 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2292 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2293 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2294 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2296 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2298 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2299 read-only, out of scope).
2300 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2302 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2303 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2304 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2305 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2307 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2309 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2310 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2311 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2312 real issues in debug logging.
2314 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2315 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2317 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2318 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2319 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2321 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2322 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2323 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2326 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2327 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2329 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2330 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2331 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2332 needs to override this, it can.
2334 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2335 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2336 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2338 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2339 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2340 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2341 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2343 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2349 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2350 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2352 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2354 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2357 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2358 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2360 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2361 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2362 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2364 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2365 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2366 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2367 not safe for signals.
2369 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2370 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2371 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2372 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2375 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2377 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2378 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2379 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2380 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2381 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2383 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2384 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2385 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2386 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2387 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2388 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2390 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2391 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2392 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2393 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2395 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2396 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2397 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2398 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2400 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2401 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2402 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2403 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2404 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2405 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2406 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2407 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2408 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2410 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2411 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2412 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2413 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2415 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2416 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2417 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2418 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2419 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2420 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2421 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2422 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2423 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2424 details in the main documentation.
2426 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2428 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2430 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2431 repository when doing development or release builds.
2433 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2434 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2436 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2437 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2440 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2442 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2443 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2445 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2446 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2448 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2449 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2451 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2452 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2454 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2455 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2457 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2459 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2462 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2463 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2464 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2466 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2468 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2470 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2471 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2477 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2479 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2480 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2482 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2484 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2486 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2489 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2490 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2492 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2493 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2495 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2496 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2498 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2501 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2502 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2504 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2505 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2506 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2507 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2509 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2510 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2516 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2519 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2520 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2521 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2523 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2524 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2526 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2527 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2528 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2530 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2531 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2533 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2534 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2536 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2537 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2539 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2540 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2542 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2543 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2545 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2548 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2549 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2551 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2552 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2554 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2555 SQL string expansion failure details.
2556 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2558 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2559 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2561 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2562 extern declarations in function scope.
2563 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2565 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2566 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2567 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2570 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2571 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2573 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2574 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2576 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2577 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2579 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2580 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2582 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2583 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2586 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2588 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2590 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2591 Patch by Simon Arlott
2593 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2594 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2600 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2601 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2603 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2604 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2606 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2608 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2609 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2610 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2612 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2613 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2614 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2616 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2617 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2618 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2619 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2621 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2622 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2623 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2624 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2626 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2627 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2628 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2631 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2634 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2635 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2636 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2637 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2638 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2644 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2645 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2646 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2648 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2649 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2651 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2653 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2655 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2657 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2659 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2661 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2662 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2663 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2664 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2666 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2667 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2668 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2669 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2670 more caution in buffer sizes.
2672 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2674 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2676 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2678 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2680 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2682 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2684 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2686 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2687 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2688 ignore trailing whitespace.
2690 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2692 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2695 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2696 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2698 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2699 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2700 Notification from John Horne.
2702 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2705 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2706 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2709 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2712 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2713 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2714 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2716 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2717 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2718 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2721 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2722 option (effectively making it always true).
2724 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2725 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2727 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2728 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2730 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2731 run-time user, instead of root.
2733 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2734 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2736 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2737 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2740 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2741 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2742 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2744 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2746 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2752 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2753 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2756 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2757 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2760 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2761 Patch from Alain Williams
2763 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2765 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2766 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2768 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2769 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2771 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2773 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2775 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2776 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2778 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2780 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2782 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2783 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2784 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2786 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2787 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2789 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2790 Patch by Simon Arlott
2792 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2793 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2799 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2801 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2803 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2805 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2807 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2813 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2814 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2816 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2817 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2820 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2821 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2822 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2824 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2825 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2827 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2828 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2829 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2830 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2832 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2833 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2834 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2836 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2838 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2840 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2841 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2843 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2845 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2846 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2847 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2848 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2850 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2851 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2853 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2855 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2857 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2858 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2860 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2861 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2863 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2864 that they are available at delivery time.
2866 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2868 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2869 incoming_port log selectors.
2871 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2872 setting expands to an empty string.
2874 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2875 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2877 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2878 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2880 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2881 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2883 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2884 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2886 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2887 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2889 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2890 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2892 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2894 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2895 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2897 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2898 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2900 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2902 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2903 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2905 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2907 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2909 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2912 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2913 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2915 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2916 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2918 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2919 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2921 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2922 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2924 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2925 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2927 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2928 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2930 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2931 plus update to original patch.
2933 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2935 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2936 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2938 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2940 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2942 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2944 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2946 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2947 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2949 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2950 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2952 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2953 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2955 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2956 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2958 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2960 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2962 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2964 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2970 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2971 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2972 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2974 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2975 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2976 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2977 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2978 build errors in sieve.c.
2980 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2981 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2982 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2984 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2986 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2988 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2990 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2996 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2998 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2999 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3000 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3001 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3002 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3003 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3004 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3005 for iplsearch lookups.
3007 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3008 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3009 previously such lookups could never work.
3011 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3012 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3013 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3015 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3018 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3019 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3020 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3021 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3022 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3023 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3025 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3026 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3028 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3029 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3030 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3031 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3032 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3033 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3035 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3038 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3040 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3041 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3044 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3045 by clients under certain conditions.
3047 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3048 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3050 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3052 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3053 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3055 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3057 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3059 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3061 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3062 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3064 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3066 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3067 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3069 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3071 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3073 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3074 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3075 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3076 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3078 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3079 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3080 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3082 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3083 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3085 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3087 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3089 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3091 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3092 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3093 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3099 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3100 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3103 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3104 issue a MAIL command.
3106 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3108 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3110 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3111 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3112 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3113 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3114 item. This has been fixed.
3116 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3117 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3119 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3120 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3122 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3123 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3124 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3126 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3128 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3129 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3130 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3131 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3132 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3134 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3135 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3136 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3138 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3139 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3140 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3141 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3143 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3145 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3147 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3148 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3149 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3150 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3151 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3153 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3155 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3156 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3157 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3160 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3162 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3164 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3166 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3168 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3170 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3171 no_callout_flush is set.
3173 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3174 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3175 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3178 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3180 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3181 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3182 other ACL rejections are.
3184 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3185 with slight modification.
3187 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3188 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3190 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3191 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3194 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3195 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3197 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3199 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3200 expansion side effects.
3202 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3203 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3204 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3207 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3208 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3209 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3211 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3212 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3213 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3214 were accidentally chopped off.
3216 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3217 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3218 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3219 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3220 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3221 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3222 pipelining has not been advertised.
3224 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3226 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3227 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3228 This has been fixed.
3230 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3231 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3232 reported on Solaris.
3234 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3235 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3236 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3237 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3238 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3239 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3240 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3242 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3245 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3247 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3249 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3250 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3251 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3252 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3253 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3254 criteria to be more general.
3256 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3257 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3258 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3259 host_all_ignored option.
3261 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3262 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3263 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3264 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3265 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3266 is what is supposed to happen).
3268 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3269 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3270 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3271 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3272 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3275 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3276 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3277 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3278 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3279 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3280 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3283 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3285 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3286 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3288 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3289 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3291 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3293 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3295 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3296 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3297 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3298 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3299 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3300 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3301 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3302 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3303 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3304 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3305 least in a lot of common cases.
3307 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3308 advertised in response to EHLO.
3314 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3315 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3317 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3318 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3320 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3321 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3322 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3324 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3325 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3326 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3327 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3328 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3334 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3335 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3338 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3339 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3340 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3342 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3343 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3344 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3345 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3346 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3347 rather than extend the field.
3353 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3354 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3355 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3356 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3359 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3360 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3361 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3363 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3364 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3365 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3367 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3368 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3369 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3372 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3373 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3374 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3375 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3376 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3377 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3378 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3379 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3380 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3381 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3382 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3384 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3387 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3388 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3389 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3390 ignores EPIPE as well.
3392 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3393 (quoted-printable decoding).
3395 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3396 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3398 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3400 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3402 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3404 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3405 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3407 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3410 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3411 miscellaneous code fixes
3413 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3416 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3417 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3418 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3419 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3420 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3421 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3422 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3423 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3425 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3426 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3427 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3428 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3430 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3431 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3432 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3433 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3434 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3435 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3436 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3437 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3438 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3440 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3443 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3444 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3445 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3446 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3447 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3448 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3449 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3450 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3452 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3453 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3456 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3457 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3458 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3459 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3460 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3461 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3462 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3463 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3464 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3465 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3466 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3467 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3468 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3470 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3471 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3472 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3473 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3474 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3475 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3476 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3478 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3479 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3480 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3481 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3482 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3483 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3484 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3485 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3486 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3487 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3489 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3490 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3491 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3492 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3493 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3495 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3496 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3497 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3498 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3499 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3500 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3501 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3503 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3504 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3505 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3506 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3507 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3508 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3511 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3512 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3513 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3516 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3517 if any retry times were supplied.
3519 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3520 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3521 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3523 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3525 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3527 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3528 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3529 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3530 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3531 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3532 before) are ignored.
3534 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3535 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3537 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3538 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3539 committing the later change.]
3541 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3542 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3543 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3544 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3545 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3546 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3547 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3548 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3549 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3551 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3552 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3553 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3554 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3555 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3556 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3557 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3558 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3559 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3561 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3562 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3563 hammering the server.
3565 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3566 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3568 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3570 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3571 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3572 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3574 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3575 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3576 one case where this was not true.
3578 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3579 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3580 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3581 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3584 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3585 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3586 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3587 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3588 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3589 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3590 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3591 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3592 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3595 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3596 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3597 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3598 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3600 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3601 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3603 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3604 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3605 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3607 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3609 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3611 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3613 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3614 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3615 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3616 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3618 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3619 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3621 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3622 be meaningful with "accept".
3624 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3625 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3627 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3628 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3629 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3631 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3632 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3633 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3634 there is data to show.
3635 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3637 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3638 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3639 as well as the number of messages.
3641 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3642 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3643 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3645 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3646 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3647 have a flag are now skipped.
3649 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3650 Added the -emptyok flag.
3652 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3653 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3655 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3656 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3657 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3659 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3662 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3663 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3665 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3667 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3668 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3670 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3672 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3673 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3674 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3675 contravention of the specifications.
3677 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3678 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3679 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3681 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3682 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3683 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3685 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3687 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3688 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3689 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3690 some point in the past.
3692 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3693 transport during callout processing was broken.
3695 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3696 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3698 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3699 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3701 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3702 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3704 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3710 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3711 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3713 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3714 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3715 there is data to show.
3716 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3718 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3719 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3721 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3722 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3724 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3725 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3727 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3728 submissions from trusted users.
3730 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3731 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3733 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3734 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3735 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3736 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3737 there is now a framework to start from.
3739 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3740 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3741 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3743 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3745 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3747 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3749 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3750 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3751 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3753 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3756 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3757 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3758 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3760 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3761 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3762 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3765 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3766 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3767 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3768 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3769 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3771 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3772 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3774 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3776 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3777 operations in malware.c.
3779 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3782 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3783 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3784 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3787 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3788 statements to "add_header".
3790 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3791 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3793 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3794 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3797 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3801 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3802 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3803 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3806 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3807 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3809 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3810 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3812 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3813 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3814 any possible encoding problems.
3816 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3817 but not after initializing Perl.
3819 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3820 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3821 apparently, which is not desirable.
3823 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3826 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3829 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3831 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3832 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3833 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3834 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3836 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3837 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3838 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3840 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3841 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3842 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3845 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3846 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3847 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3848 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3849 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3855 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3856 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3858 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3861 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3862 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3863 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3864 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3865 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3866 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3867 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3868 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3871 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3873 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3874 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3875 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3877 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3878 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3879 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3882 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3883 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3885 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3886 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3887 option (which defaults to 0600).
3889 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3891 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3892 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3893 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3894 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3895 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3896 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3897 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3899 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3905 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3906 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3907 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3908 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3909 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3910 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3913 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3914 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3916 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3918 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3919 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3920 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3921 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3922 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3925 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3926 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3928 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3929 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3930 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3931 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3932 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3934 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3935 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3936 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3937 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3939 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3940 be the same on different OS.
3942 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3945 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3946 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3948 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3951 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3952 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3953 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3954 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3955 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3956 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3959 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3960 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3961 when Exim was called.
3963 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3964 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3966 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3967 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3968 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3969 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3971 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3972 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3973 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3974 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3977 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3978 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3979 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3981 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3982 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3983 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3985 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3988 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3989 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3990 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3991 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3992 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3993 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3994 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3995 values from the SRV records were lost.
3997 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3998 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3999 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4001 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4002 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4003 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4005 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4006 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4007 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4008 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4009 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4010 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4011 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4012 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4013 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4014 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4016 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4017 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4018 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4020 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4021 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4023 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4024 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4025 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4026 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4029 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4030 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4031 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4033 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4034 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4035 PH/23 above applies.
4037 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4038 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4039 (for which there is an explicit test).
4041 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4043 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4044 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4045 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4046 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4047 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4049 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4050 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4051 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4052 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4054 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4055 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4056 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4058 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4060 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4062 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4063 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4064 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4066 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4067 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4068 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4069 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4070 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4072 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4073 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4074 the message gets confusing).
4076 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4077 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4078 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4079 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4081 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4082 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4083 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4084 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4087 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4088 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4089 the different processes.
4091 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4093 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4095 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4096 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4098 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4099 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4101 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4102 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4103 messages matching specified criteria.
4105 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4107 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4108 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4110 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4111 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4112 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4113 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4114 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4115 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4116 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4117 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4118 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4119 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4121 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4122 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4123 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4125 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4127 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4128 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4129 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4130 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4131 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4132 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4133 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4136 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4137 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4139 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4141 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4143 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4145 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4146 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4147 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4148 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4149 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4150 size of the count of files.
4152 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4154 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4157 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4158 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4159 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4160 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4162 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4163 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4164 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4166 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4167 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4168 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4169 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4170 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4172 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4173 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4175 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4176 will now be deprecated.
4178 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4180 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4181 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4182 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4184 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4185 with very large, slow to parse queues
4187 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4189 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4191 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4192 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4193 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4196 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4197 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4198 Sieve code now uses this.
4200 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4201 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4203 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4204 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4206 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4208 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4209 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4210 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4211 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4212 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4214 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4215 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4216 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4217 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4219 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4221 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4223 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4224 is preferred over IPv4.
4226 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4227 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4228 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4229 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4230 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4231 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4232 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4234 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4235 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4236 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4238 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4240 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4241 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4242 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4243 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4244 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4245 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4246 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4247 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4248 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4249 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4250 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4252 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4253 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4254 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4260 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4262 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4263 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4265 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4266 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4267 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4269 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4271 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4274 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4277 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4278 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4279 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4282 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4283 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4285 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4286 inside the third argument.
4288 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4289 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4292 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4293 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4295 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4296 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4298 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4300 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4301 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4304 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4306 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4307 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4308 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4309 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4310 identical. For example:
4312 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4314 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4315 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4316 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4318 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4319 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4320 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4321 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4323 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4324 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4325 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4328 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4330 o fixes some comments
4331 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4332 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4333 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4334 and documents the missing references header update
4338 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4339 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4342 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4343 Electronic Mail") by including:
4345 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4347 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4348 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4349 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4350 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4351 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4353 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4355 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4357 The auto-replied keyword:
4359 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4360 message by an automatic process,
4362 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4364 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4365 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4367 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4368 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4371 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4372 to the default Received: header definition.
4374 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4376 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4377 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4378 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4380 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4381 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4382 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4384 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4385 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4386 and treats the condition as false.
4388 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4390 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4391 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4392 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4393 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4394 not changing the active code.
4396 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4397 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4399 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4400 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4402 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4405 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4406 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4407 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4408 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4409 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4410 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4411 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4412 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4413 the text comparison.
4415 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4416 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4417 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4418 The same fix has been applied.
4424 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4425 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4428 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4429 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4431 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4433 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4434 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4435 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4436 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4437 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4439 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4440 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4441 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4442 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4445 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4453 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4454 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4456 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4458 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4460 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4461 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4462 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4464 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4465 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4466 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4468 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4469 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4472 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4473 ${stat: expansion item.
4475 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4476 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4478 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4479 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4482 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4484 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4487 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4488 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4490 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4492 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4493 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4494 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4495 the end of the subprocess.
4497 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4498 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4499 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4500 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4501 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4503 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4505 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4507 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4508 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4510 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4512 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4514 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4515 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4518 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4520 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4521 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4522 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4524 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4525 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4527 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4528 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4530 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4531 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4533 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4534 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4536 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4537 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4538 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4539 contributed by a Radius user.
4541 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4542 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4544 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4545 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4547 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4550 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4551 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4554 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4555 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4556 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4557 header lines when this was not necessary.
4559 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4561 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4562 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4563 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4566 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4569 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4570 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4571 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4572 return code was incorrect.
4574 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4576 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4578 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4580 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4582 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4583 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4584 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4585 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4586 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4589 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4591 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4592 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4593 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4594 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4595 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4596 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4597 which is clearly wrong.
4599 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4601 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4602 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4603 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4606 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4607 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4609 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4611 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4612 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4614 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4615 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4617 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4618 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4620 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4621 recipients, not senders.
4623 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4624 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4626 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4628 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4630 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4631 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4632 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4633 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4635 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4637 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4638 clock is set back in time.
4640 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4641 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4643 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4644 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4646 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4647 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4650 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4651 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4654 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4657 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4659 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4660 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4661 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4663 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4664 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4665 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4666 helo verification defer as a failure.
4668 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4669 actual error message.
4675 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4677 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4678 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4679 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4680 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4682 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4684 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4685 can still be requested.
4687 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4688 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4689 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4690 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4692 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4693 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4694 circumstances, but probably never did.
4696 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4697 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4698 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4701 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4703 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4704 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4706 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4708 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4710 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4711 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4712 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4713 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4714 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4715 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4717 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4718 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4719 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4720 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4721 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4722 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4724 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4725 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4727 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4728 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4730 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4731 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4733 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4735 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4737 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4739 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4741 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4743 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4745 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4747 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4748 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4749 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4751 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4752 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4753 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4754 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4756 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4757 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4758 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4760 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4761 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4762 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4763 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4765 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4766 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4769 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4770 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4771 should work with maildirs and everything.
4773 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4774 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4776 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4779 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4780 function for BDB 4.3.
4782 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4784 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4785 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4788 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4789 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4790 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4791 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4792 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4793 formatting function string_vformat().
4795 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4796 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4797 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4798 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4799 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4800 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4801 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4802 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4804 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4805 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4808 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4809 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4811 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4812 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4813 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4814 test. It is now used for both.
4816 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4817 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4818 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4819 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4820 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4821 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4823 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4824 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4825 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4828 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4829 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4830 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4832 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4833 experimental DomainKeys support:
4835 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4836 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4837 the control was given.
4839 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4841 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4843 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4845 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4846 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4847 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4850 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4851 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4852 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4853 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4854 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4855 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4858 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4859 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4860 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4861 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4862 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4863 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4865 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4866 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4867 do -d+all out of habit.
4869 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4870 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4873 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4874 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4875 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4876 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4877 record types that Exim uses.
4879 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4880 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4881 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4882 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4883 non-existent file that was broken.
4885 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4886 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4888 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4889 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4890 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4892 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4894 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4895 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4896 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4897 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4898 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4901 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4902 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4903 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4904 at a slight CPU cost.
4906 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4907 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4909 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4912 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4914 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4915 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4921 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4922 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4924 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4926 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4928 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4929 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4931 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4932 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4933 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4934 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4935 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4936 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4939 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4940 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4941 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4942 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4945 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4946 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4947 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4948 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4949 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4950 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4951 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4954 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4955 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4957 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4958 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4959 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4960 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4961 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4962 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4964 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4965 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4966 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4967 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4969 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4972 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4973 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4975 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4976 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4977 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4978 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4981 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4983 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4984 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4986 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4987 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4988 to what was transported.)
4990 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4992 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4993 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4994 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4995 spamd_address settings.
4997 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4998 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4999 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5000 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5001 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5003 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5005 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5006 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5007 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5008 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5009 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5011 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5012 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5014 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5015 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5016 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5017 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5018 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5019 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5020 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5023 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5024 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5025 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5026 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5027 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5028 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5029 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5032 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5034 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5035 driver and ACL definitions.
5037 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5038 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5040 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5041 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5042 understands it better than I do:
5044 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5045 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5047 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5048 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5049 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5050 => three warnings about OTP not working
5051 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5053 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5054 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5055 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5056 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5058 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5059 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5061 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5062 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5063 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5065 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5066 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5069 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5070 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5073 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5074 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5075 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5077 warn !verify = sender
5078 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5080 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5081 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5083 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5085 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5086 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5088 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5089 nomenclature these days.)
5091 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5092 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5094 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5095 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5096 . First host does not offer TLS;
5097 . First host accepts first address;
5098 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5099 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5100 . Second host accepts second address.
5101 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5102 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5105 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5106 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5107 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5108 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5109 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5111 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5112 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5114 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5115 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5117 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5118 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5119 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5121 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5122 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5125 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5127 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5128 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5129 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5130 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5131 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5132 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5133 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5135 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5136 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5137 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5138 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5139 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5141 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5142 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5145 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5146 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5147 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5148 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5149 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5150 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5152 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5154 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5155 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5156 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5157 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5158 printable escape sequences.
5160 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5161 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5164 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5165 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5168 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5169 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5170 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5171 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5172 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5174 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5175 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5176 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5178 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5180 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5181 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5184 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5185 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5186 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5187 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5188 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5189 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5190 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5191 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5192 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5195 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5196 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5197 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5198 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5202 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5203 ----------------------------------------
5205 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5206 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5207 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5208 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5209 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5210 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5213 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5214 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5215 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5216 historical information.
5222 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5224 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5225 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5227 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5228 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5231 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5232 filter fails to execute.
5234 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5235 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5236 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5237 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5238 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5240 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5242 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5243 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5244 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5245 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5247 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5248 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5249 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5250 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5251 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5253 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5255 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5257 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5258 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5259 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5260 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5262 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5263 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5264 sender verification.
5266 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5267 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5269 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5271 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5274 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5275 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5277 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5278 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5280 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5281 information about exactly what failed.
5283 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5285 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5286 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5287 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5289 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5290 It is now set to "smtps".
5292 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5293 ignore_target_hosts.
5295 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5296 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5297 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5298 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5301 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5302 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5303 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5305 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5306 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5307 wake it up if nothing else does.
5309 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5310 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5311 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5314 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5315 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5317 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5319 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5320 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5321 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5322 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5323 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5324 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5325 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5326 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5328 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5329 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5330 than one IP address.
5332 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5333 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5334 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5335 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5337 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5338 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5339 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5340 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5341 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5344 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5345 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5346 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5347 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5349 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5350 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5353 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5354 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5355 $sender_host_address.
5357 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5358 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5359 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5360 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5361 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5364 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5366 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5367 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5369 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5370 just the host names, not the priorities.
5372 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5373 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5374 controlled by a keyword.
5376 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5377 multiple records are returned.
5379 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5380 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5383 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5385 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5386 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5388 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5389 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5390 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5392 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5394 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5396 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5398 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5399 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5400 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5401 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5402 because the tests only now provoked it.
5404 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5405 (this can affect the format of dates).
5407 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5408 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5409 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5410 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5412 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5414 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5415 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5416 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5417 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5419 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5420 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5421 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5423 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5426 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5427 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5428 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5429 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5430 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5431 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5434 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5435 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5436 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5439 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5440 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5441 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5443 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5444 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5445 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5446 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5447 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5448 so I produce this patch..."
5450 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5451 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5454 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5455 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5456 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5457 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5460 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5462 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5463 long debug lines gets shown.
5465 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5466 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5468 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5470 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5471 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5472 of $primary_hostname.
5474 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5475 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5476 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5477 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5478 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5479 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5480 by change 4.50/55 above.
5482 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5483 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5484 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5485 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5486 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5487 running as the user.
5490 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5491 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5492 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5495 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5496 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5498 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5499 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5500 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5501 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5502 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5504 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5505 This has been fixed.
5507 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5508 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5509 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5510 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5513 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5515 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5516 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5517 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5518 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5520 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5521 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5523 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5524 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5525 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5527 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5528 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5529 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5532 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5533 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5534 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5536 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5537 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5538 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5539 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5541 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5542 during host lookups.
5544 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5545 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5547 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5549 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5550 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5551 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5552 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5553 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5556 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5557 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5559 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5560 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5561 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5563 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5565 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5566 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5567 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5568 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5569 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5570 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5573 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5574 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5575 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5576 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5577 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5579 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5582 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5584 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5585 "vacation" handling.
5587 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5588 OS variants using glibc.
5590 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5593 ----------------------------------------------------
5594 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5595 ----------------------------------------------------
5601 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5602 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5605 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5606 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5609 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5610 filter fails to execute.
5612 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5613 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5614 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5615 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5616 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5618 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5619 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5620 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5621 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5623 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5624 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5625 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5626 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5627 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5629 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5631 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5632 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5633 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5634 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5636 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5637 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5638 sender verification.
5640 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5641 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5643 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5644 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5646 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5647 ignore_target_hosts.
5649 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5650 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5651 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5652 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5655 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5656 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5657 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5659 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5660 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5661 wake it up if nothing else does.
5663 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5664 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5665 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5668 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5669 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5671 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5673 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5674 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5677 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5678 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5681 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5682 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5683 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5684 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5685 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5688 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5689 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5692 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5693 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5694 $sender_host_address.
5696 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5698 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5699 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5700 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5702 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5705 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5706 (this can affect the format of dates).
5708 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5709 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5710 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5711 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5713 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5714 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5715 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5717 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5718 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5719 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5720 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5722 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5723 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5724 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5726 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5729 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5730 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5731 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5732 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5733 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5734 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5737 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5738 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5739 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5740 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5743 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5744 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5745 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5746 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5747 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5748 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5749 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5751 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5752 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5753 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5754 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5755 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5756 running as the user.
5759 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5760 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5761 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5764 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5765 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5766 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5767 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5768 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5770 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5771 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5772 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5773 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5776 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5777 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5778 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5779 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5780 because the tests only now provoked it.
5786 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5787 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5788 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5789 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5790 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5791 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5792 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5794 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5795 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5798 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5800 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5802 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5803 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5806 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5807 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5808 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5809 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5810 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5812 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5813 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5815 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5817 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5819 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5822 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5823 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5825 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5826 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5827 affecting debugging statements).
5829 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5831 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5832 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5833 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5834 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5835 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5836 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5837 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5838 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5839 after the received time, and all would be well.
5841 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5842 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5843 condition in an expansion string.
5845 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5847 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5848 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5849 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5850 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5851 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5852 job under whatever limits there are.
5854 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5856 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5859 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5860 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5861 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5862 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5865 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5866 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5867 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5868 binary data in such strings.
5870 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5872 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5873 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5874 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5875 failure, which is pointless.
5877 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5879 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5881 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5882 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5883 Sender: header lines.
5885 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5886 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5887 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5889 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5890 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5891 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5892 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5893 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5896 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5897 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5898 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5899 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5900 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5902 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5903 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5904 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5907 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5908 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5910 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5911 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5913 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5915 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5917 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5919 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5922 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5924 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5926 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5927 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5928 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5929 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5931 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5932 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5938 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5939 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5940 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5942 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5943 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5944 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5945 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5946 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5947 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5949 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5950 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5951 verification failure".
5953 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5954 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5955 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5956 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5958 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5959 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5960 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5961 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5962 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5963 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5964 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5965 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5966 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5967 treated as a timeout.
5969 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5970 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5971 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5972 not set for Exim filters).
5974 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5975 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5976 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5978 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5980 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5981 try to make them clearer.
5983 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5984 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5986 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5988 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5990 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5991 only the Cygwin environment.
5993 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5994 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5995 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5996 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5997 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5999 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6000 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6001 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6002 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6003 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6004 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6005 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6007 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6008 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6010 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6012 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6013 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6014 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6016 To: susanne@some.where
6018 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6019 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6020 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6021 of addresses in From: header lines).
6023 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6024 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6025 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6027 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6028 treated as non-personal.
6030 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6031 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6033 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6035 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6037 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6038 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6039 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6041 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6042 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6044 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6045 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6046 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6047 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6048 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6049 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6051 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6052 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6053 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6054 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6055 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6056 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6057 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6058 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6060 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6062 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6063 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6065 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6066 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6067 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6069 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6070 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6072 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6073 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6074 rather than long int.
6076 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6078 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6084 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6085 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6086 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6087 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6088 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6089 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6095 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6096 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6098 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6099 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6100 socklen_t is defined.
6102 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6105 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6108 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6109 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6110 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6111 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6112 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6114 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6115 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6116 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6117 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6119 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6120 of flapping under certain conditions.
6122 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6123 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6124 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6126 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6128 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6130 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6131 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6132 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6133 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6135 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6136 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6137 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6138 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6139 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6140 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6141 preserved with the message after it was received.
6143 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6144 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6145 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6146 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6147 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6148 test suite worked just fine.
6150 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6151 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6152 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6154 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6155 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6158 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6159 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6160 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6161 does not fully solve it.
6163 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6164 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6165 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6166 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6167 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6169 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6170 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6171 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6173 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6174 string, for example:
6176 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6178 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6179 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6180 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6181 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6182 the routers could not see them.
6184 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6185 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6187 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6188 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6191 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6192 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6193 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6194 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6195 that needed quoting.
6197 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6198 was not being matched caselessly.
6200 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6203 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6204 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6205 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6206 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6207 when use_sender is false.
6209 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6211 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6213 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6215 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6216 the configuration file.
6218 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6219 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6221 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6223 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6224 bytes in the message body.
6226 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6227 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6230 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6232 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6234 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6235 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6236 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6237 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6244 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6245 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6247 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6248 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6249 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6250 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6251 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6253 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6254 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6256 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6257 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6258 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6260 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6261 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6262 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6264 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6267 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6268 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6269 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6270 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6271 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6272 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6273 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6279 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6280 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6281 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6282 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6283 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6284 default (and expected) setting.
6286 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6287 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6288 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6289 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6291 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6292 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6294 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6297 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6298 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6299 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6300 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6301 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6302 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6304 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6305 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6306 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6308 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6309 part (NOT match_host).
6311 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6313 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6314 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6315 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6316 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6317 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6318 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6319 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6320 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6321 the same named file.
6323 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6324 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6327 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6328 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6329 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6330 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6333 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6334 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6335 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6337 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6339 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6341 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6343 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6344 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6346 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6347 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6348 before starting the TLS session.
6350 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6352 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6353 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6355 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6356 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6357 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6358 colon in the middle).
6364 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6365 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6366 multiple configurations are in use.
6368 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6369 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6370 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6371 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6372 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6373 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6375 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6376 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6378 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6379 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6380 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6382 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6383 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6386 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6387 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6389 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6391 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6392 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6394 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6402 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6403 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6404 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6405 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6406 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6408 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6411 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6412 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6413 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6414 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6415 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6416 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6418 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6419 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6420 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6421 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6422 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6423 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6424 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6427 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6428 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6429 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6430 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6431 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6433 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6435 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6436 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6437 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6439 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6441 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6442 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6443 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6446 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6447 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6449 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6450 Three changes have been made:
6452 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6453 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6454 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6455 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6456 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6458 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6461 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6462 the modified behaviour.
6468 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6471 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6472 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6474 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6475 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6476 try to track down a specific problem.
6478 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6479 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6480 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6482 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6485 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6486 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6487 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6488 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6489 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6490 some earlier ones do not.
6492 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6494 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6495 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6496 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6497 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6498 address literals are enabled, of course).
6500 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6502 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6503 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6504 by a command such as
6508 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6510 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6512 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6513 remained set. It is now erased.
6515 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6516 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6518 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6519 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6520 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6521 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6522 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6523 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6524 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6525 appropriate error code.
6527 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6528 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6529 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6530 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6531 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6532 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6534 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6535 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6536 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6538 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6539 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6540 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6541 terminate the header.
6543 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6544 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6545 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6547 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6548 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6549 (4.30/29). In particular:
6551 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6554 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6555 to write a maildirsize file.
6557 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6558 the transport, the new value overrides.
6560 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6563 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6564 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6565 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6568 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6569 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6570 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6573 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6574 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6575 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6577 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6578 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6581 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6582 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6583 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6585 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6587 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6589 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6591 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6592 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6595 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6596 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6597 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6598 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6599 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6600 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6601 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6604 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6605 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6606 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6607 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6608 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6611 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6612 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6613 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6614 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6615 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6616 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6617 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6618 cached value only when the same options are set.
6620 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6622 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6623 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6624 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6625 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6626 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6628 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6629 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6630 it is clearly obsolete.
6632 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6635 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6636 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6637 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6640 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6641 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6642 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6643 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6644 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6646 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6647 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6648 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6649 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6651 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6653 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6655 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6656 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6659 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6660 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6661 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6662 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6663 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6664 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6667 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6668 with the -f command-line option.
6670 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6671 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6672 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6673 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6674 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6675 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6677 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6678 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6681 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6682 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6683 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6684 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6685 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6686 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6687 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6688 buffer is too small.
6690 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6691 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6693 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6694 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6695 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6696 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6697 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6698 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6699 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6700 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6701 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6703 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6704 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6705 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6707 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6708 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6711 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6712 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6713 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6714 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6715 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6717 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6718 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6719 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6720 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6723 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6725 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6727 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6728 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6730 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6731 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6732 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6734 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6735 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6736 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6737 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6738 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6740 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6741 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6742 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6743 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6744 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6745 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6746 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6748 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6749 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6750 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6751 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6752 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6753 the test of how many are available.
6755 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6756 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6757 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6758 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6759 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6760 new message is started.
6762 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6763 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6765 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6766 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6768 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6769 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6770 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6773 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6774 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6775 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6776 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6777 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6778 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6779 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6781 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6782 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6783 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6784 interpreted as octal.
6786 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6789 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6790 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6791 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6792 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6793 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6794 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6796 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6797 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6798 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6799 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6801 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6802 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6803 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6804 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6806 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6807 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6810 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6811 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6813 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6815 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6816 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6817 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6818 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6820 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6821 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6822 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6823 supplied", which is not helpful.
6825 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6826 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6827 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6829 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6830 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6831 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6832 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6833 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6834 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6835 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6836 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6838 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6839 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6840 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6841 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6842 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6844 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6845 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6846 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6847 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6848 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6849 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6851 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6852 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6853 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6855 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6857 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6858 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6859 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6862 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6864 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6865 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6866 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6867 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6868 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6869 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6870 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6871 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6873 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6874 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6875 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6876 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6877 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6879 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6882 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6883 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6884 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6885 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6886 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6887 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6888 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6889 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6890 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6896 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6897 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6898 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6900 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6903 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6904 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6905 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6907 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6908 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6909 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6910 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6911 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6912 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6914 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6915 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6916 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6917 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6918 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6919 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6920 the Exim test suite.
6922 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6923 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6924 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6925 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6927 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6928 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6929 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6930 specify it in this variable.
6932 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6933 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6934 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6935 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6937 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6938 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6939 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6940 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6942 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6943 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6944 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6945 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6946 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6948 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6950 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6953 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6954 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6955 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6956 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6957 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6959 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6960 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6962 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6963 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6964 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6965 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6966 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6968 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6969 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6971 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6972 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6973 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6975 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6976 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6978 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6979 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6981 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6982 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6983 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6985 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6986 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6988 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6989 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6990 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6991 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6993 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6995 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6996 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6997 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6998 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7000 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7002 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7003 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7005 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7007 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7008 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7009 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7010 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7011 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7012 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7014 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7016 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7017 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7020 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7022 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7023 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7025 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7026 550 Sender verify failed
7028 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7029 the final line of the response.
7031 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7032 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7033 all other user lookups.
7035 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7038 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7039 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7040 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7041 result into an int without checking.
7043 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7044 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7045 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7047 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7048 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7049 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7050 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7052 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7055 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7056 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7058 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7059 to the empty sender.
7061 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7062 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7063 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7064 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7065 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7066 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7067 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7070 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7071 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7072 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7073 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7076 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7077 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7079 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7082 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7083 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7085 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7087 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7088 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7091 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7092 as soon as it is encountered.
7094 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7096 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7099 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7100 recognizes a tab character.
7102 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7103 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7104 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7105 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7107 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7109 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7112 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7114 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7116 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7117 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7120 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7121 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7122 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7123 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7124 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7126 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7127 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7129 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7130 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7131 list (.included file names were always shown).
7133 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7134 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7135 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7138 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7139 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7141 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7143 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7145 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7147 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7148 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7149 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7150 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7151 failures to open the logs.
7153 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7154 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7155 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7156 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7157 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7158 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7159 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7165 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7166 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7167 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7170 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7171 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7172 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7174 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7175 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7176 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7178 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7179 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7180 causing some misleading effects.
7182 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7183 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7184 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7186 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7187 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7188 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7189 queue-runner function directly.
7195 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7198 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7199 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7200 was always written to the default place.
7202 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7203 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7204 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7206 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7208 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7210 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7211 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7212 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7214 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7215 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7218 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7219 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7220 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7222 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7223 command line option is disabled.
7225 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7226 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7228 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7230 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7232 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7233 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7235 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7237 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7238 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7239 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7240 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7241 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7242 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7244 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7245 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7248 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7249 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7251 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7252 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7254 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7255 received was valid base64.
7257 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7258 name of the variable that was being set.
7260 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7262 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7263 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7264 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7265 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7266 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7267 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7269 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7271 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7272 nor realm was specified.
7274 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7275 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7276 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7277 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7279 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7280 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7281 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7283 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7284 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7285 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7287 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7288 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7289 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7290 some systems use these upper case variants.
7292 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7293 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7294 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7295 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7297 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7299 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7300 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7302 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7303 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7306 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7308 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7309 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7310 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7311 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7313 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7316 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7317 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7318 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7320 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7321 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7323 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7324 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7325 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7326 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7328 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7329 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7330 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7332 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7334 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7335 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7336 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7337 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7340 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7341 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7342 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7344 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7346 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7347 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7349 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7350 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7352 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7353 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7354 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7355 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7356 when emails are that large.
7363 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7364 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7366 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7367 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7368 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7370 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7371 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7372 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7374 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7375 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7376 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7377 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7378 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7380 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7381 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7382 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7383 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7384 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7387 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7388 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7389 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7390 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7391 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7392 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7393 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7394 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7395 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7396 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7397 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7398 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7399 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7400 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7402 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7403 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7406 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7407 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7408 error should be diagnosed.
7410 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7411 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7412 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7413 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7414 appeared instead of "NULL".
7416 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7417 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7418 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7419 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7420 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7421 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7424 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7425 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7426 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7432 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7433 or receiver verification errors.
7435 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7438 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7439 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7440 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7441 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7443 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7444 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7445 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7446 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7447 shouldn't happen again.
7449 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7450 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7451 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7453 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7454 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7456 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7458 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7459 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7461 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7462 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7465 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7466 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7467 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7469 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7470 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7471 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7472 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7474 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7475 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7476 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7477 to define what should happen).
7479 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7480 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7481 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7483 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7485 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7487 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7488 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7490 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7491 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7492 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7493 structure in all cases.
7495 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7496 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7497 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7498 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7500 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7501 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7504 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7505 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7507 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7508 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7510 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7511 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7512 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7514 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7515 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7516 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7518 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7519 the book and for uniformity.
7521 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7523 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7524 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7525 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7526 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7527 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7528 non-existent command as the problem.
7530 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7531 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7532 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7534 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7536 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7537 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7538 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7540 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7541 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7542 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7543 timestamps using strftime().
7545 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7546 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7548 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7549 transport-time rewrites.
7551 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7552 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7553 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7554 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7556 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7557 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7559 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7560 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7561 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7562 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7565 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7566 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7567 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7568 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7569 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7570 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7571 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7573 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7574 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7575 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7576 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7577 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7579 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7580 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7581 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7582 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7583 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7584 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7585 remaining text gets split now.
7587 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7588 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7589 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7590 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7592 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7593 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7594 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7595 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7598 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7599 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7600 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7601 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7602 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7603 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7604 passed through if needed.
7606 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7607 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7608 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7609 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7610 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7611 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7613 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7614 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7615 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7616 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7617 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7619 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7620 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7621 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7622 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7623 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7625 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7626 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7629 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7630 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7631 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7632 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7633 mayhem of various kinds.
7635 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7636 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7637 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7638 the right test for positive values.
7640 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7641 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7642 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7643 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7644 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7645 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7646 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7647 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7648 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7649 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7652 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7655 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7656 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7659 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7660 the existing equality matching.
7662 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7663 dealing with inode numbers.
7665 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7666 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7667 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7669 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7670 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7671 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7672 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7675 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7676 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7677 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7678 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7679 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7680 relay addresses has also been removed.
7682 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7684 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7685 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7686 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7688 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7689 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7690 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7691 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7692 processing applies to CR:
7694 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7695 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7697 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7698 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7699 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7700 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7702 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7703 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7704 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7706 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7707 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7708 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7709 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7710 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7711 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7714 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7717 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7718 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7719 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7720 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7723 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7725 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7727 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7729 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7730 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7731 not considered personal.
7733 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7735 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7737 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7739 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7740 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7741 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7742 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7743 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7744 header lines, and spool format errors.
7746 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7747 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7748 for more flexibility.
7750 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7751 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7752 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7754 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7757 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7758 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7759 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7760 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7761 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7762 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7763 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7764 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7765 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7767 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7768 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7769 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7770 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7771 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7772 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7773 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7775 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7776 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7777 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7779 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7780 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7781 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7782 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7783 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7784 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7785 instead of killing the process with assert().
7787 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7788 than Unicode encoding.
7790 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7791 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7792 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7793 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7795 77. Added process_log_path.
7797 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7798 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7800 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7801 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7803 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7804 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7805 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7807 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7808 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7809 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7810 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7811 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7814 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7815 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7818 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7819 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7820 they will be used during message reception.
7826 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.