1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
10 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
11 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
13 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
14 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
15 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
16 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
18 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
19 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
20 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
21 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
22 so could be handling tainted values.
24 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
25 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
26 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
28 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
29 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
30 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
33 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
34 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
35 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
36 to align better with RFC 6125.
38 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
39 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
40 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
41 by adding a release action in that path.
43 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
44 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
45 dynamically-created buffers.
47 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
48 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
49 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
50 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
52 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
53 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
54 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
55 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
57 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
58 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
59 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
61 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
62 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
63 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
64 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
66 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
67 excluded, not matching the documentation.
69 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
70 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
72 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
73 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
74 this was a coding error.
76 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
77 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
78 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
79 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
80 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
81 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
82 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
84 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
85 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
86 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
87 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
89 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
90 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
91 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
92 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
93 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
95 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
96 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
99 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
100 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
101 domain-parking registrar.
103 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
104 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
105 after removing the newline.
107 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
108 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
109 option set, which was previously used.
111 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
114 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
115 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
116 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
117 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
119 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
120 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
121 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
122 exim.dev.20160529.3).
124 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
125 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
126 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
128 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
129 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
130 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
133 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
134 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
135 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
137 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
138 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
139 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
140 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
143 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
144 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
145 there, handle PRX and TFO.
147 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
148 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
149 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
150 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
151 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
153 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
154 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
155 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
156 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
159 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
160 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
162 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
165 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
166 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
167 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
168 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
169 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
171 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
173 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
174 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
175 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
176 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
177 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
178 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
180 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
181 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
183 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
184 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
185 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
187 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
188 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
191 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
192 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
193 of a new variable: $auth4.
195 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
196 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
197 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
198 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
199 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
201 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
202 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
203 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
204 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
206 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
207 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
208 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
210 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
211 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
212 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
213 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
216 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
217 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the sore could not be freed.
218 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
221 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
222 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
223 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
224 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
226 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
227 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
229 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
230 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
231 looked as if if might be one.
233 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
234 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
235 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
236 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
237 messages can show the proxy information.
239 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
240 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
241 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
242 "queue_time_exclusive".
244 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
245 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
246 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
248 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
249 making it unusable in complex expressions.
251 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
252 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
255 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
257 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
259 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
261 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
262 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
263 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
264 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
266 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
267 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
269 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
270 better. Reported by Qualys.
272 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
273 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
276 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
278 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
281 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
283 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
284 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
285 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
286 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
288 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
289 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
291 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
292 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
293 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
294 mode until after various protocol state checks.
295 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
297 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
299 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
300 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
302 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
305 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
306 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
307 executed child processes (if any).
309 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
312 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
313 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
314 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
315 been reported on other platforms.
317 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
319 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
320 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
321 Not supported on Solaris 10.
323 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
324 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
325 since fakereject was originally introduced.
327 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
328 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
330 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
331 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
332 incorrrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
335 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
336 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
337 which only permit IP addresses.
343 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
344 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
345 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
347 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
349 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
350 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
353 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
354 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
355 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
357 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
359 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
361 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
362 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
363 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
365 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
366 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
367 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
369 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
370 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
372 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
373 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
376 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
377 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
378 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
379 should both provide the file and set the option.
380 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
382 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
383 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
385 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
386 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
387 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
388 Authentication-Results: header.
390 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
391 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
392 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
393 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
395 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
396 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
397 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
398 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
399 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
400 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
401 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
403 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
404 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
405 copies while it is still usable.
407 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
408 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
409 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
411 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
412 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
414 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
415 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
416 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
417 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
419 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
420 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
421 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
424 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
425 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
426 - the pipe transport command
427 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
428 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
430 - paths used by single-key lookups
431 Previously this was permitted.
433 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
434 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
435 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
436 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
438 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
439 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
440 support larger malloc requests.
442 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
443 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
444 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
445 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
447 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
448 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
449 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
450 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
453 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
454 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
455 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
456 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
457 data being length-specified.
459 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
460 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
461 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
462 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
464 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
465 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
466 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
467 not being properly tracked.
469 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
470 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
471 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
472 minute could be seen.
474 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
475 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
476 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
478 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
479 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
481 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
482 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
485 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
487 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
488 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
490 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
491 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
492 filesystem as sufficient validation.
494 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
495 argument is supplied.
497 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
498 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
499 access under Exim's current working directory.
501 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
502 Previously no event was raised.
504 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
505 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
506 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
509 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
510 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
511 the size of the signature hash.
513 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
514 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
516 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
517 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
518 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
519 dropped between messages.
521 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
522 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
523 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
524 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
526 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
527 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
528 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
529 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
530 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
531 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
532 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
533 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
534 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
536 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
537 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
538 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
540 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
541 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
548 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
549 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
551 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
552 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
555 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
558 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
560 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
562 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
563 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
565 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
566 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
567 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
568 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
569 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
570 suitably configured).
572 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
573 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
575 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
576 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
579 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
580 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
582 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
583 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
584 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
585 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
588 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
589 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
590 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
592 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
595 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
596 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
598 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
599 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
600 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
601 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
604 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
605 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
606 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
607 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
610 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
611 shared (NFS) environment.
613 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
614 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
617 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
618 on some platforms for bit 31.
620 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
621 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
622 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
623 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
624 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
625 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
626 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
627 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
629 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
631 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
632 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
634 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
635 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
638 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
639 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
642 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
643 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
644 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
647 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
648 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
649 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
651 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
652 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
653 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
654 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
655 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
657 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
660 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
661 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
662 be requested on all coneections.
664 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
665 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
667 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
669 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
670 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
671 one for these; the option was ignored.
673 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
674 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
675 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
676 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
678 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
679 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
680 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
683 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
684 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
685 error ignored was made.
687 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
689 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
690 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
691 values, to catch one form of exploit.
693 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
694 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
695 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
697 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
698 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
701 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
702 them in our smtp response.
704 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
705 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
706 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
707 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
708 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
710 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
711 link count into consideration.
713 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
714 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
716 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
717 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
718 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
721 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
723 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
725 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
727 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
728 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
729 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
730 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
732 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
734 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
735 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
738 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
739 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
740 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
742 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
743 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
744 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
746 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
747 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
748 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
749 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
750 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
751 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
752 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
753 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
755 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
756 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
757 resulted in an indefinite loop.
759 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
760 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
761 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
767 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
768 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
770 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
771 non-signal-safe functions being used.
773 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
774 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
775 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
777 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
778 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
779 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
781 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
782 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
783 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
784 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
785 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
788 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
789 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
791 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
792 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
793 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
794 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
795 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
796 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
797 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
799 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
800 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
802 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
805 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
806 Previously this would segfault.
808 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
811 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
812 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
813 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
814 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
815 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
816 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
818 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
820 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
821 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
822 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
823 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
825 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
827 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
828 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
829 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
830 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
832 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
834 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
836 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
837 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
838 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
840 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
841 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
842 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
844 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
846 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
847 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
848 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
849 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
851 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
852 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
853 promised '?' replacement.
855 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
857 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
858 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
859 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
860 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
861 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
863 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
864 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
865 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
867 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
868 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
869 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
871 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
872 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
873 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
875 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
876 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
877 hope that is portable enough.
879 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
880 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
881 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
882 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
884 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
885 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
886 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
888 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
889 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
890 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
891 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
893 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
894 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
896 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
897 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
898 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
899 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
901 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
902 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
903 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
905 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
906 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
907 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
908 the previous G, M, k.
910 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
911 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
914 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
915 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
916 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
917 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
919 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
920 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
922 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
923 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
924 off past the nul-terimation.
926 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
927 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
928 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
929 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
930 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
932 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
934 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
935 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
936 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
939 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
940 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
942 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
943 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
944 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
946 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
947 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
948 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
950 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
951 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
957 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
958 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
959 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
960 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
961 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
962 be defined in redis_servers.
964 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
965 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
967 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
968 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
969 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
970 extant use locations.
972 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
973 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
975 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
976 Previously only the last row was returned.
978 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
979 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
980 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
981 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
984 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
985 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
986 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
987 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
988 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
989 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
990 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
991 Main pool for expansions.
992 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
993 active in the testsuite.
994 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
996 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
997 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
998 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
999 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1002 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1003 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1006 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1007 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1008 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1010 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1011 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1012 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1014 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1015 rows affected is given instead).
1017 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1018 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1020 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1021 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1022 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1023 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1024 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1026 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1027 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1028 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1030 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1031 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1032 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1033 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1036 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1037 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1038 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1041 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1043 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1044 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1046 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1047 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1048 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1050 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1051 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1052 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1055 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1056 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1058 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1059 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1060 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1062 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1063 for the build is renamed.
1065 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1066 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1067 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1069 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1070 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1071 result replacing the original.
1073 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1074 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1075 and the resources needed to be freed.
1077 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1079 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1082 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1083 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1084 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1085 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1087 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1088 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1090 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1091 newer versions of the scanner.
1093 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1094 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1095 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1096 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1097 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1098 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1099 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1101 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1102 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1103 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1104 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1105 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1106 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1107 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1108 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1109 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1110 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1112 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1113 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1115 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1117 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1118 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1120 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1121 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1123 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1124 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1125 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1127 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1128 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1129 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1130 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1132 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1133 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1136 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1137 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1139 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1140 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1141 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1142 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1143 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1145 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1146 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1149 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1150 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1152 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1155 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1156 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1157 "bare" representation.
1159 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1160 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1161 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1162 corrupted the output.
1168 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1169 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1170 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1171 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1173 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1174 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1176 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1177 This permits better logging.
1179 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1180 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1181 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1182 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1183 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1184 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1186 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1187 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1190 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1191 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1192 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1194 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1195 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1197 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1198 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1199 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1200 client, there is no benefit for these.
1201 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1202 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1203 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1206 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1207 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1209 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1210 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1211 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1213 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1214 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1216 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1217 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1218 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1219 signature and again for transmission.
1221 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1222 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1223 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1225 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1226 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1227 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1228 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1229 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1230 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1231 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1233 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1234 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1235 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1236 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1238 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1239 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1240 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1241 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1242 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1243 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1246 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1247 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1248 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1249 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1252 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1253 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1254 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1255 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1258 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1259 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1262 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1263 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1264 banner-time rejection.
1266 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1269 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1270 is the name of a transport.
1273 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1275 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1276 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1278 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1279 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1280 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1283 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1284 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1285 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1286 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1288 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1289 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1290 initial verify call returned a defer.
1292 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1293 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1295 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1296 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1298 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1299 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1301 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1302 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1304 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1305 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1308 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1309 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1311 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1312 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1313 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1315 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1316 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1317 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1318 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1320 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1321 and confused the parent.
1323 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1324 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1326 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1329 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1330 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1331 out-of-order delivery.
1333 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1334 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1335 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1338 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1339 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1342 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1343 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1344 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1346 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1347 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1348 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1349 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1350 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1351 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1353 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1354 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1355 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1357 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1358 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1359 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1361 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1362 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1363 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1364 though a different problem.
1370 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1371 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1373 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1375 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1376 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1378 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1379 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1381 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1382 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1383 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1384 before acknowledging the chunk.
1386 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1387 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1388 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1390 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1391 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1392 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1395 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1396 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1397 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1399 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1400 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1402 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1403 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1404 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1405 body hash calculated value.
1407 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1408 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1409 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1411 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1413 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1414 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1416 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1417 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1418 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1420 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1421 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1422 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1423 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1424 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1425 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1427 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1428 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1429 past that check, despite the cost.
1431 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1432 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1433 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1435 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1436 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1437 TLS library to consume.
1439 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1441 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1443 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1444 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1445 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1446 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1447 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1448 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1449 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1451 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1453 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1455 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1456 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1457 should be warning-free.
1459 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1461 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1462 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1464 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1465 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1466 general solution here.
1468 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1469 already-broken messages in the queue.
1471 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1473 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1479 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1480 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1482 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1483 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1484 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1486 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1487 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1488 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1489 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1490 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1491 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1492 if one fails this test.
1493 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1494 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1496 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1497 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1499 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1500 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1502 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1503 in rewrites and routers.
1505 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1506 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1508 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1509 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1511 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1513 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1516 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1517 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1518 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1519 connection after a verify cache hit.
1520 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1522 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1523 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1525 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1526 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1527 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1528 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1529 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1531 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1532 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1534 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1535 Previously they were not counted.
1537 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1538 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1539 that needed the lookup.
1541 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1542 distinguished as "(=".
1544 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1545 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1547 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1549 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1550 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1552 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1553 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1555 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1556 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1559 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1560 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1561 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1562 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1564 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1566 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1567 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1568 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1570 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1571 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1572 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1575 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1576 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1577 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1580 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1581 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1582 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1584 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1585 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1588 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1590 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1591 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1593 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1594 are not in the system include path.
1596 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1597 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1598 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1599 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1601 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1602 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1603 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1605 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1607 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1608 an incoming connection.
1610 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1613 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1614 fallback to "prime256v1".
1616 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1617 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1623 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1624 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1625 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1626 client dropping the TLS connection.
1628 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1629 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1631 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1632 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1633 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1634 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1637 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1638 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1639 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1640 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1641 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1642 check on the next write.
1644 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1645 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1646 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1647 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1648 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1650 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1651 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1653 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1654 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1655 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1657 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1658 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1659 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1660 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1662 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1663 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1665 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1666 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1668 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1669 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1670 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1673 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1675 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1677 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1679 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1680 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1682 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1683 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1685 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1687 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1688 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1690 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1692 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1693 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1695 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1697 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1698 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1699 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1700 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1701 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1702 they will retry in-clear.
1703 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1704 at installation time.
1706 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1707 with the $config_file variable.
1709 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1710 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1711 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1712 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1713 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1715 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1716 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1717 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1718 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1719 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1721 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1723 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1724 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1725 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1726 list order is no longer honoured.
1728 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1729 for DKIM processing.
1731 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1732 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1734 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1735 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1736 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1737 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1739 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1740 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1742 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1743 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1745 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1746 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1748 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1750 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1751 cached by the daemon.
1753 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1754 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1756 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1757 keys are given for lookup.
1759 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1760 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1761 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1762 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1764 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1765 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1766 server-side so match that on older versions.
1768 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1769 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1770 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1772 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1773 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1775 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1776 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1777 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1778 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1779 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1780 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1781 initial truncated version.
1783 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1785 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1787 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1788 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1790 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1792 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1794 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1795 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1798 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1799 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1802 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1803 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1805 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1806 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1809 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1810 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1811 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1813 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1814 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1815 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1816 extraction. Accept either.
1822 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1825 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1827 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1830 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1831 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1832 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1833 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1835 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1836 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1837 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1839 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1840 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1841 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1844 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1847 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1848 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1849 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1850 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1851 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1853 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1854 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1855 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1857 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1859 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1860 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1862 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1863 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1865 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1868 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1869 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1871 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1872 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1873 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1875 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1876 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1877 specify a port-range.
1879 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1880 timeout value per server.
1882 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1883 now have the list separator specified.
1885 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1888 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1891 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1893 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1894 rather than the verbs used.
1896 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1897 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1899 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1901 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1902 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1904 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1905 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1907 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1908 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1910 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1912 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1914 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1915 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1916 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1917 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1919 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1921 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1922 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1924 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1925 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1927 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1929 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1931 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1933 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1934 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1936 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1937 added for tls authenticator.
1939 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1945 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1946 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1947 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1948 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1949 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1950 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1951 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1953 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1954 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1955 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1956 function when detected.
1958 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1959 cause callback expansion.
1961 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1962 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1963 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1964 instead of bool when processing it.
1966 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1967 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1969 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1971 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1973 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1975 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1976 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1978 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1979 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1980 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1981 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1982 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1983 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1985 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1986 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1989 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1990 version 3.3.6 or later.
1992 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1993 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1994 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1995 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1996 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1997 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2000 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2001 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2003 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2004 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2005 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2008 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2009 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2010 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2012 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2013 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2015 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2016 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2019 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2021 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2022 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2024 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2025 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2028 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2030 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2033 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2034 output list separator was used.
2039 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2040 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2043 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2044 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2046 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2048 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2049 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2055 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2057 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2058 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2059 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2060 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2061 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2062 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2064 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2065 utilities have not been installed.
2067 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2068 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2070 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2071 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2073 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2074 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2075 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2076 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2078 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2080 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2081 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2083 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2086 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2088 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2089 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2090 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2092 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2093 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2094 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2095 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2096 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2097 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2099 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2101 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2102 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2104 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2107 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2109 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2111 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2112 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2114 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2115 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2117 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2119 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2121 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2122 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2124 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2125 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2126 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2128 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2129 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2130 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2133 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2135 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2136 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2139 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2140 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2143 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2144 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2146 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2147 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2149 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2151 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2152 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2153 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2155 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2156 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2158 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2159 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2162 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2163 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2164 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2166 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2168 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2169 Christian Aistleitner.
2171 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2173 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2174 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2176 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2177 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2179 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2180 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2182 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2183 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2185 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2186 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2188 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2189 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2190 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2192 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2194 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2195 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2198 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2200 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2201 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2208 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2210 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2211 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2213 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2216 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2217 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2220 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2222 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2223 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2224 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2225 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2226 using channel bindings instead).
2228 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2229 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2230 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2231 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2232 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2235 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2237 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2239 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2240 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2242 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2243 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2244 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2246 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2248 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2250 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2251 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2253 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2255 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2257 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2259 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2260 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2262 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2264 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2265 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2268 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2269 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2271 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2272 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2275 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2277 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2279 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2280 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2282 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2285 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2286 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2288 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2289 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2291 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2293 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2295 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2298 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2301 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2303 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2304 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2305 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2306 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2308 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2310 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2311 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2312 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2313 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2316 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2317 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2318 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2320 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2321 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2322 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2323 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2325 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2326 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2327 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2328 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2329 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2330 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2331 delivery, as in LMTP.
2333 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2334 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2336 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2338 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2342 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2343 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2344 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2345 username as equal to the username.
2347 This change corrects that bug.
2349 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2350 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2351 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2353 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2355 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2356 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2357 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2358 NULL dereference and crash.
2360 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2362 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2363 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2364 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2366 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2368 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2369 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2370 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2371 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2372 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2373 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2374 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2375 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2376 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2377 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2378 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2380 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2381 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2383 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2384 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2387 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2388 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2389 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2390 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2391 an empty string is now equivalent.
2393 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2394 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2395 not performing validation itself.
2397 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2398 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2400 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2403 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2405 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2406 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2407 other false fix of the same issue.
2408 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2411 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2412 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2414 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2415 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2416 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2418 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2419 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2420 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2422 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2424 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2426 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2427 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2429 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2432 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2433 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2434 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2435 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2436 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2438 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2439 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2441 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2442 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2445 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2446 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2447 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2448 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2450 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2452 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2453 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2454 from multiple comments on this bug.
2456 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2458 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2459 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2462 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2463 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2465 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2466 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2472 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2474 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2480 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2481 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2482 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2484 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2486 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2489 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2491 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2493 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2495 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2496 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2498 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2499 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2501 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2502 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2504 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2505 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2506 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2508 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2510 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2511 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2513 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2515 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2517 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2518 non-compliant senders.
2519 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2521 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2522 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2523 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2525 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2526 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2527 in spool file corruption.
2529 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2530 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2531 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2534 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2535 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2536 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2538 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2539 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2541 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2543 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2545 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2547 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2548 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2549 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2551 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2552 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2553 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2554 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2556 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2557 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2559 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2560 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2561 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2562 resolver implementation change.
2564 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2565 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2567 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2569 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2571 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2572 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2574 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2575 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2577 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2578 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2580 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2581 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2582 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2583 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2584 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2586 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2588 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2589 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2590 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2592 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2594 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2595 read-only, out of scope).
2596 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2598 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2599 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2600 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2601 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2603 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2605 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2606 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2607 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2608 real issues in debug logging.
2610 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2611 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2613 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2614 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2615 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2617 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2618 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2619 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2622 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2623 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2625 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2626 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2627 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2628 needs to override this, it can.
2630 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2631 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2632 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2634 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2635 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2636 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2637 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2639 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2645 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2646 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2648 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2650 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2653 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2654 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2656 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2657 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2658 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2660 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2661 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2662 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2663 not safe for signals.
2665 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2666 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2667 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2668 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2671 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2673 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2674 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2675 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2676 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2677 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2679 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2680 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2681 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2682 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2683 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2684 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2686 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2687 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2688 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2689 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2691 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2692 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2693 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2694 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2696 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2697 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2698 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2699 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2700 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2701 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2702 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2703 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2704 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2706 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2707 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2708 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2709 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2711 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2712 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2713 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2714 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2715 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2716 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2717 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2718 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2719 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2720 details in the main documentation.
2722 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2724 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2726 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2727 repository when doing development or release builds.
2729 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2730 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2732 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2733 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2736 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2738 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2739 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2741 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2742 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2744 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2745 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2747 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2748 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2750 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2751 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2753 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2755 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2758 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2759 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2760 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2762 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2764 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2766 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2767 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2773 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2775 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2776 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2778 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2780 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2782 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2785 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2786 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2788 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2789 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2791 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2792 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2794 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2797 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2798 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2800 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2801 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2802 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2803 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2805 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2806 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2812 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2815 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2816 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2817 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2819 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2820 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2822 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2823 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2824 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2826 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2827 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2829 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2830 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2832 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2833 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2835 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2836 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2838 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2839 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2841 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2844 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2845 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2847 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2848 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2850 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2851 SQL string expansion failure details.
2852 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2854 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2855 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2857 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2858 extern declarations in function scope.
2859 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2861 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2862 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2863 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2866 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2867 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2869 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2870 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2872 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2873 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2875 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2876 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2878 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2879 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2882 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2884 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2886 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2887 Patch by Simon Arlott
2889 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2890 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2896 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2897 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2899 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2900 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2902 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2904 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2905 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2906 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2908 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2909 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2910 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2912 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2913 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2914 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2915 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2917 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2918 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2919 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2920 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2922 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2923 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2924 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2927 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2930 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2931 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2932 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2933 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2934 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2940 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2941 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2942 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2944 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2945 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2947 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2949 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2951 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2953 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2955 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2957 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2958 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2959 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2960 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2962 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2963 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2964 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2965 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2966 more caution in buffer sizes.
2968 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2970 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2972 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2974 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2976 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2978 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2980 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2982 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2983 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2984 ignore trailing whitespace.
2986 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2988 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2991 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2992 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2994 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2995 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2996 Notification from John Horne.
2998 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3001 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3002 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3005 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3008 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3009 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3010 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3012 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3013 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3014 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3017 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3018 option (effectively making it always true).
3020 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3021 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3023 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3024 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3026 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3027 run-time user, instead of root.
3029 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3030 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3032 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3033 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3036 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3037 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3038 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3040 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3042 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3048 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3049 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3052 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3053 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3056 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3057 Patch from Alain Williams
3059 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3061 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3062 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3064 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3065 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3067 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3069 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3071 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3072 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3074 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3076 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3078 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3079 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3080 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3082 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3083 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3085 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3086 Patch by Simon Arlott
3088 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3089 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3095 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3097 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3099 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3101 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3103 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3109 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3110 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3112 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3113 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3116 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3117 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3118 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3120 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3121 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3123 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3124 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3125 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3126 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3128 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3129 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3130 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3132 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3134 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3136 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3137 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3139 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3141 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3142 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3143 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3144 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3146 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3147 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3149 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3151 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3153 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3154 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3156 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3157 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3159 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3160 that they are available at delivery time.
3162 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3164 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3165 incoming_port log selectors.
3167 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3168 setting expands to an empty string.
3170 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3171 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3173 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3174 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3176 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3177 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3179 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3180 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3182 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3183 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3185 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3186 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3188 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3190 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3191 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3193 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3194 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3196 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3198 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3199 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3201 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3203 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3205 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3208 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3209 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3211 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3212 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3214 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3215 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3217 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3218 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3220 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3221 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3223 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3224 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3226 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3227 plus update to original patch.
3229 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3231 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3232 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3234 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3236 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3238 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3240 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3242 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3243 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3245 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3246 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3248 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3249 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3251 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3252 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3254 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3256 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3258 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3260 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3266 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3267 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3268 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3270 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3271 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3272 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3273 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3274 build errors in sieve.c.
3276 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3277 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3278 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3280 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3282 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3284 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3286 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3292 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3294 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3295 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3296 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3297 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3298 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3299 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3300 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3301 for iplsearch lookups.
3303 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3304 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3305 previously such lookups could never work.
3307 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3308 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3309 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3311 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3314 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3315 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3316 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3317 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3318 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3319 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3321 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3322 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3324 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3325 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3326 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3327 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3328 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3329 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3331 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3334 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3336 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3337 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3340 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3341 by clients under certain conditions.
3343 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3344 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3346 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3348 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3349 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3351 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3353 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3355 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3357 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3358 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3360 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3362 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3363 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3365 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3367 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3369 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3370 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3371 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3372 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3374 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3375 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3376 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3378 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3379 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3381 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3383 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3385 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3387 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3388 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3389 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3395 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3396 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3399 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3400 issue a MAIL command.
3402 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3404 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3406 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3407 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3408 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3409 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3410 item. This has been fixed.
3412 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3413 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3415 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3416 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3418 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3419 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3420 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3422 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3424 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3425 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3426 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3427 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3428 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3430 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3431 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3432 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3434 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3435 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3436 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3437 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3439 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3441 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3443 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3444 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3445 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3446 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3447 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3449 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3451 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3452 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3453 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3456 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3458 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3460 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3462 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3464 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3466 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3467 no_callout_flush is set.
3469 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3470 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3471 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3474 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3476 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3477 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3478 other ACL rejections are.
3480 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3481 with slight modification.
3483 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3484 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3486 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3487 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3490 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3491 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3493 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3495 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3496 expansion side effects.
3498 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3499 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3500 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3503 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3504 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3505 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3507 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3508 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3509 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3510 were accidentally chopped off.
3512 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3513 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3514 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3515 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3516 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3517 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3518 pipelining has not been advertised.
3520 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3522 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3523 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3524 This has been fixed.
3526 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3527 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3528 reported on Solaris.
3530 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3531 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3532 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3533 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3534 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3535 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3536 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3538 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3541 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3543 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3545 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3546 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3547 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3548 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3549 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3550 criteria to be more general.
3552 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3553 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3554 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3555 host_all_ignored option.
3557 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3558 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3559 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3560 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3561 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3562 is what is supposed to happen).
3564 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3565 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3566 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3567 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3568 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3571 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3572 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3573 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3574 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3575 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3576 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3579 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3581 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3582 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3584 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3585 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3587 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3589 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3591 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3592 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3593 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3594 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3595 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3596 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3597 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3598 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3599 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3600 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3601 least in a lot of common cases.
3603 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3604 advertised in response to EHLO.
3610 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3611 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3613 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3614 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3616 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3617 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3618 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3620 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3621 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3622 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3623 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3624 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3630 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3631 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3634 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3635 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3636 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3638 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3639 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3640 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3641 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3642 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3643 rather than extend the field.
3649 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3650 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3651 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3652 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3655 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3656 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3657 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3659 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3660 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3661 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3663 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3664 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3665 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3668 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3669 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3670 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3671 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3672 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3673 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3674 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3675 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3676 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3677 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3678 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3680 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3683 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3684 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3685 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3686 ignores EPIPE as well.
3688 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3689 (quoted-printable decoding).
3691 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3692 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3694 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3696 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3698 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3700 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3701 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3703 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3706 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3707 miscellaneous code fixes
3709 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3712 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3713 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3714 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3715 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3716 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3717 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3718 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3719 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3721 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3722 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3723 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3724 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3726 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3727 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3728 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3729 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3730 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3731 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3732 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3733 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3734 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3736 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3739 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3740 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3741 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3742 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3743 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3744 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3745 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3746 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3748 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3749 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3752 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3753 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3754 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3755 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3756 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3757 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3758 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3759 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3760 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3761 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3762 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3763 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3764 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3766 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3767 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3768 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3769 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3770 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3771 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3772 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3774 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3775 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3776 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3777 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3778 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3779 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3780 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3781 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3782 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3783 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3785 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3786 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3787 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3788 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3789 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3791 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3792 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3793 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3794 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3795 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3796 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3797 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3799 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3800 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3801 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3802 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3803 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3804 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3807 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3808 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3809 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3812 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3813 if any retry times were supplied.
3815 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3816 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3817 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3819 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3821 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3823 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3824 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3825 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3826 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3827 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3828 before) are ignored.
3830 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3831 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3833 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3834 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3835 committing the later change.]
3837 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3838 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3839 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3840 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3841 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3842 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3843 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3844 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3845 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3847 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3848 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3849 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3850 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3851 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3852 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3853 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3854 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3855 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3857 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3858 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3859 hammering the server.
3861 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3862 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3864 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3866 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3867 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3868 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3870 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3871 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3872 one case where this was not true.
3874 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3875 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3876 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3877 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3880 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3881 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3882 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3883 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3884 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3885 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3886 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3887 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3888 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3891 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3892 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3893 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3894 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3896 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3897 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3899 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3900 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3901 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3903 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3905 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3907 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3909 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3910 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3911 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3912 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3914 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3915 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3917 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3918 be meaningful with "accept".
3920 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3921 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3923 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3924 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3925 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3927 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3928 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3929 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3930 there is data to show.
3931 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3933 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3934 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3935 as well as the number of messages.
3937 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3938 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3939 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3941 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3942 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3943 have a flag are now skipped.
3945 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3946 Added the -emptyok flag.
3948 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3949 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3951 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3952 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3953 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3955 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3958 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3959 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3961 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3963 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3964 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3966 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3968 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3969 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3970 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3971 contravention of the specifications.
3973 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3974 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3975 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3977 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3978 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3979 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3981 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3983 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3984 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3985 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3986 some point in the past.
3988 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3989 transport during callout processing was broken.
3991 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3992 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3994 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3995 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3997 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3998 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4000 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4006 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4007 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4009 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4010 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4011 there is data to show.
4012 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4014 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4015 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4017 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4018 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4020 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4021 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4023 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4024 submissions from trusted users.
4026 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4027 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4029 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4030 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4031 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4032 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4033 there is now a framework to start from.
4035 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4036 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4037 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4039 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4041 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4043 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4045 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4046 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4047 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4049 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4052 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4053 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4054 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4056 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4057 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4058 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4061 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4062 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4063 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4064 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4065 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4067 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4068 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4070 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4072 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4073 operations in malware.c.
4075 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4078 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4079 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4080 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4083 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4084 statements to "add_header".
4086 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4087 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4089 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4090 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4093 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4097 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4098 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4099 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4102 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4103 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4105 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4106 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4108 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4109 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4110 any possible encoding problems.
4112 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4113 but not after initializing Perl.
4115 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4116 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4117 apparently, which is not desirable.
4119 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4122 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4125 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4127 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4128 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4129 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4130 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4132 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4133 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4134 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4136 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4137 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4138 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4141 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4142 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4143 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4144 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4145 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4151 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4152 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4154 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4157 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4158 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4159 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4160 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4161 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4162 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4163 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4164 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4167 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4169 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4170 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4171 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4173 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4174 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4175 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4178 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4179 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4181 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4182 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4183 option (which defaults to 0600).
4185 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4187 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4188 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4189 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4190 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4191 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4192 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4193 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4195 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4201 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4202 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4203 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4204 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4205 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4206 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4209 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4210 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4212 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4214 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4215 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4216 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4217 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4218 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4221 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4222 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4224 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4225 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4226 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4227 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4228 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4230 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4231 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4232 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4233 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4235 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4236 be the same on different OS.
4238 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4241 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4242 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4244 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4247 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4248 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4249 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4250 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4251 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4252 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4255 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4256 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4257 when Exim was called.
4259 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4260 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4262 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4263 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4264 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4265 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4267 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4268 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4269 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4270 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4273 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4274 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4275 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4277 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4278 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4279 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4281 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4284 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4285 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4286 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4287 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4288 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4289 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4290 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4291 values from the SRV records were lost.
4293 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4294 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4295 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4297 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4298 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4299 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4301 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4302 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4303 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4304 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4305 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4306 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4307 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4308 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4309 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4310 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4312 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4313 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4314 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4316 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4317 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4319 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4320 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4321 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4322 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4325 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4326 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4327 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4329 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4330 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4331 PH/23 above applies.
4333 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4334 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4335 (for which there is an explicit test).
4337 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4339 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4340 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4341 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4342 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4343 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4345 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4346 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4347 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4348 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4350 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4351 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4352 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4354 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4356 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4358 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4359 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4360 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4362 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4363 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4364 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4365 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4366 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4368 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4369 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4370 the message gets confusing).
4372 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4373 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4374 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4375 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4377 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4378 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4379 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4380 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4383 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4384 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4385 the different processes.
4387 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4389 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4391 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4392 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4394 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4395 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4397 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4398 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4399 messages matching specified criteria.
4401 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4403 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4404 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4406 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4407 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4408 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4409 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4410 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4411 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4412 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4413 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4414 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4415 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4417 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4418 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4419 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4421 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4423 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4424 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4425 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4426 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4427 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4428 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4429 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4432 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4433 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4435 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4437 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4439 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4441 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4442 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4443 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4444 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4445 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4446 size of the count of files.
4448 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4450 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4453 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4454 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4455 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4456 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4458 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4459 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4460 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4462 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4463 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4464 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4465 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4466 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4468 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4469 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4471 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4472 will now be deprecated.
4474 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4476 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4477 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4478 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4480 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4481 with very large, slow to parse queues
4483 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4485 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4487 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4488 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4489 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4492 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4493 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4494 Sieve code now uses this.
4496 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4497 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4499 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4500 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4502 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4504 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4505 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4506 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4507 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4508 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4510 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4511 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4512 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4513 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4515 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4517 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4519 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4520 is preferred over IPv4.
4522 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4523 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4524 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4525 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4526 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4527 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4528 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4530 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4531 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4532 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4534 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4536 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4537 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4538 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4539 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4540 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4541 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4542 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4543 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4544 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4545 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4546 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4548 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4549 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4550 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4556 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4558 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4559 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4561 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4562 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4563 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4565 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4567 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4570 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4573 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4574 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4575 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4578 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4579 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4581 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4582 inside the third argument.
4584 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4585 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4588 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4589 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4591 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4592 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4594 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4596 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4597 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4600 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4602 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4603 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4604 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4605 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4606 identical. For example:
4608 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4610 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4611 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4612 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4614 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4615 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4616 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4617 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4619 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4620 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4621 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4624 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4626 o fixes some comments
4627 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4628 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4629 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4630 and documents the missing references header update
4634 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4635 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4638 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4639 Electronic Mail") by including:
4641 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4643 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4644 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4645 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4646 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4647 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4649 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4651 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4653 The auto-replied keyword:
4655 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4656 message by an automatic process,
4658 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4660 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4661 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4663 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4664 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4667 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4668 to the default Received: header definition.
4670 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4672 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4673 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4674 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4676 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4677 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4678 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4680 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4681 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4682 and treats the condition as false.
4684 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4686 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4687 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4688 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4689 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4690 not changing the active code.
4692 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4693 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4695 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4696 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4698 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4701 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4702 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4703 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4704 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4705 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4706 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4707 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4708 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4709 the text comparison.
4711 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4712 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4713 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4714 The same fix has been applied.
4720 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4721 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4724 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4725 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4727 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4729 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4730 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4731 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4732 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4733 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4735 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4736 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4737 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4738 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4741 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4749 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4750 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4752 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4754 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4756 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4757 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4758 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4760 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4761 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4762 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4764 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4765 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4768 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4769 ${stat: expansion item.
4771 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4772 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4774 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4775 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4778 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4780 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4783 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4784 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4786 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4788 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4789 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4790 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4791 the end of the subprocess.
4793 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4794 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4795 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4796 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4797 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4799 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4801 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4803 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4804 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4806 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4808 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4810 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4811 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4814 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4816 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4817 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4818 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4820 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4821 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4823 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4824 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4826 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4827 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4829 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4830 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4832 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4833 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4834 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4835 contributed by a Radius user.
4837 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4838 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4840 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4841 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4843 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4846 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4847 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4850 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4851 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4852 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4853 header lines when this was not necessary.
4855 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4857 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4858 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4859 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4862 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4865 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4866 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4867 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4868 return code was incorrect.
4870 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4872 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4874 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4876 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4878 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4879 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4880 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4881 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4882 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4885 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4887 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4888 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4889 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4890 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4891 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4892 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4893 which is clearly wrong.
4895 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4897 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4898 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4899 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4902 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4903 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4905 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4907 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4908 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4910 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4911 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4913 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4914 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4916 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4917 recipients, not senders.
4919 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4920 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4922 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4924 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4926 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4927 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4928 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4929 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4931 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4933 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4934 clock is set back in time.
4936 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4937 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4939 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4940 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4942 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4943 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4946 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4947 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4950 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4953 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4955 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4956 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4957 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4959 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4960 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4961 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4962 helo verification defer as a failure.
4964 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4965 actual error message.
4971 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4973 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4974 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4975 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4976 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4978 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4980 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4981 can still be requested.
4983 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4984 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4985 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4986 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4988 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4989 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4990 circumstances, but probably never did.
4992 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4993 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4994 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4997 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4999 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5000 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5002 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5004 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5006 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5007 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5008 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5009 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5010 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5011 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5013 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5014 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5015 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5016 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5017 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5018 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5020 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5021 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5023 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5024 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5026 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5027 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5029 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5031 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5033 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5035 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5037 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5039 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5041 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5043 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5044 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5045 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5047 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5048 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5049 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5050 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5052 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5053 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5054 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5056 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5057 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5058 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5059 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5061 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5062 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5065 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5066 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5067 should work with maildirs and everything.
5069 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5070 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5072 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5075 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5076 function for BDB 4.3.
5078 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5080 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5081 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5084 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5085 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5086 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5087 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5088 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5089 formatting function string_vformat().
5091 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5092 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5093 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5094 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5095 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5096 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5097 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5098 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5100 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5101 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5104 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5105 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5107 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5108 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5109 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5110 test. It is now used for both.
5112 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5113 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5114 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5115 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5116 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5117 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5119 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5120 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5121 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5124 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5125 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5126 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5128 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5129 experimental DomainKeys support:
5131 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5132 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5133 the control was given.
5135 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5137 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5139 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5141 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5142 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5143 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5146 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5147 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5148 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5149 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5150 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5151 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5154 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5155 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5156 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5157 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5158 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5159 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5161 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5162 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5163 do -d+all out of habit.
5165 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5166 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5169 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5170 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5171 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5172 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5173 record types that Exim uses.
5175 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5176 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5177 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5178 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5179 non-existent file that was broken.
5181 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5182 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5184 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5185 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5186 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5188 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5190 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5191 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5192 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5193 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5194 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5197 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5198 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5199 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5200 at a slight CPU cost.
5202 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5203 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5205 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5208 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5210 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5211 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5217 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5218 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5220 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5222 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5224 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5225 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5227 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5228 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5229 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5230 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5231 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5232 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5235 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5236 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5237 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5238 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5241 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5242 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5243 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5244 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5245 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5246 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5247 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5250 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5251 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5253 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5254 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5255 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5256 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5257 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5258 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5260 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5261 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5262 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5263 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5265 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5268 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5269 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5271 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5272 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5273 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5274 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5277 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5279 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5280 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5282 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5283 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5284 to what was transported.)
5286 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5288 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5289 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5290 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5291 spamd_address settings.
5293 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5294 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5295 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5296 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5297 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5299 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5301 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5302 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5303 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5304 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5305 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5307 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5308 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5310 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5311 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5312 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5313 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5314 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5315 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5316 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5319 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5320 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5321 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5322 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5323 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5324 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5325 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5328 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5330 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5331 driver and ACL definitions.
5333 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5334 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5336 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5337 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5338 understands it better than I do:
5340 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5341 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5343 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5344 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5345 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5346 => three warnings about OTP not working
5347 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5349 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5350 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5351 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5352 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5354 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5355 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5357 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5358 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5359 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5361 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5362 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5365 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5366 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5369 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5370 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5371 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5373 warn !verify = sender
5374 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5376 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5377 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5379 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5381 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5382 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5384 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5385 nomenclature these days.)
5387 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5388 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5390 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5391 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5392 . First host does not offer TLS;
5393 . First host accepts first address;
5394 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5395 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5396 . Second host accepts second address.
5397 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5398 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5401 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5402 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5403 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5404 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5405 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5407 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5408 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5410 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5411 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5413 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5414 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5415 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5417 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5418 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5421 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5423 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5424 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5425 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5426 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5427 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5428 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5429 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5431 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5432 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5433 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5434 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5435 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5437 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5438 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5441 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5442 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5443 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5444 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5445 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5446 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5448 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5450 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5451 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5452 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5453 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5454 printable escape sequences.
5456 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5457 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5460 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5461 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5464 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5465 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5466 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5467 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5468 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5470 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5471 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5472 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5474 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5476 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5477 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5480 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5481 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5482 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5483 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5484 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5485 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5486 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5487 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5488 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5491 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5492 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5493 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5494 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5498 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5499 ----------------------------------------
5501 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5502 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5503 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5504 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5505 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5506 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5509 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5510 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5511 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5512 historical information.
5518 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5520 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5521 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5523 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5524 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5527 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5528 filter fails to execute.
5530 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5531 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5532 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5533 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5534 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5536 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5538 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5539 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5540 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5541 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5543 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5544 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5545 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5546 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5547 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5549 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5551 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5553 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5554 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5555 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5556 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5558 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5559 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5560 sender verification.
5562 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5563 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5565 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5567 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5570 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5571 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5573 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5574 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5576 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5577 information about exactly what failed.
5579 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5581 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5582 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5583 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5585 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5586 It is now set to "smtps".
5588 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5589 ignore_target_hosts.
5591 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5592 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5593 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5594 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5597 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5598 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5599 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5601 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5602 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5603 wake it up if nothing else does.
5605 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5606 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5607 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5610 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5611 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5613 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5615 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5616 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5617 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5618 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5619 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5620 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5621 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5622 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5624 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5625 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5626 than one IP address.
5628 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5629 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5630 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5631 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5633 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5634 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5635 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5636 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5637 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5640 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5641 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5642 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5643 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5645 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5646 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5649 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5650 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5651 $sender_host_address.
5653 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5654 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5655 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5656 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5657 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5660 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5662 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5663 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5665 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5666 just the host names, not the priorities.
5668 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5669 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5670 controlled by a keyword.
5672 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5673 multiple records are returned.
5675 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5676 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5679 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5681 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5682 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5684 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5685 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5686 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5688 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5690 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5692 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5694 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5695 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5696 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5697 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5698 because the tests only now provoked it.
5700 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5701 (this can affect the format of dates).
5703 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5704 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5705 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5706 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5708 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5710 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5711 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5712 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5713 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5715 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5716 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5717 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5719 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5722 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5723 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5724 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5725 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5726 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5727 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5730 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5731 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5732 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5735 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5736 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5737 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5739 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5740 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5741 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5742 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5743 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5744 so I produce this patch..."
5746 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5747 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5750 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5751 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5752 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5753 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5756 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5758 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5759 long debug lines gets shown.
5761 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5762 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5764 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5766 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5767 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5768 of $primary_hostname.
5770 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5771 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5772 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5773 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5774 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5775 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5776 by change 4.50/55 above.
5778 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5779 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5780 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5781 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5782 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5783 running as the user.
5786 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5787 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5788 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5791 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5792 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5794 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5795 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5796 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5797 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5798 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5800 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5801 This has been fixed.
5803 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5804 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5805 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5806 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5809 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5811 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5812 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5813 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5814 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5816 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5817 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5819 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5820 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5821 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5823 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5824 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5825 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5828 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5829 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5830 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5832 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5833 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5834 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5835 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5837 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5838 during host lookups.
5840 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5841 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5843 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5845 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5846 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5847 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5848 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5849 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5852 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5853 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5855 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5856 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5857 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5859 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5861 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5862 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5863 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5864 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5865 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5866 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5869 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5870 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5871 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5872 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5873 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5875 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5878 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5880 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5881 "vacation" handling.
5883 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5884 OS variants using glibc.
5886 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5889 ----------------------------------------------------
5890 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5891 ----------------------------------------------------
5897 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5898 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5901 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5902 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5905 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5906 filter fails to execute.
5908 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5909 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5910 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5911 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5912 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5914 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5915 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5916 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5917 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5919 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5920 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5921 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5922 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5923 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5925 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5927 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5928 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5929 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5930 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5932 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5933 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5934 sender verification.
5936 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5937 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5939 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5940 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5942 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5943 ignore_target_hosts.
5945 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5946 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5947 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5948 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5951 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5952 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5953 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5955 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5956 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5957 wake it up if nothing else does.
5959 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5960 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5961 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5964 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5965 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5967 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5969 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5970 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5973 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5974 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5977 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5978 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5979 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5980 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5981 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5984 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5985 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5988 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5989 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5990 $sender_host_address.
5992 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5994 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5995 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5996 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5998 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6001 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6002 (this can affect the format of dates).
6004 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6005 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6006 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6007 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6009 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6010 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6011 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6013 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6014 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6015 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6016 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6018 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6019 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6020 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6022 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6025 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6026 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6027 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6028 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6029 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6030 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6033 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6034 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6035 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6036 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6039 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6040 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6041 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6042 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6043 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6044 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6045 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6047 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6048 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6049 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6050 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6051 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6052 running as the user.
6055 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6056 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6057 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6060 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6061 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6062 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6063 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6064 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6066 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6067 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6068 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6069 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6072 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6073 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6074 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6075 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6076 because the tests only now provoked it.
6082 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6083 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6084 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6085 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6086 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6087 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6088 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6090 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6091 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6094 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6096 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6098 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6099 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6102 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6103 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6104 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6105 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6106 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6108 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6109 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6111 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6113 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6115 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6118 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6119 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6121 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6122 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6123 affecting debugging statements).
6125 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6127 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6128 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6129 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6130 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6131 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6132 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6133 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6134 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6135 after the received time, and all would be well.
6137 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6138 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6139 condition in an expansion string.
6141 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6143 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6144 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6145 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6146 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6147 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6148 job under whatever limits there are.
6150 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6152 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6155 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6156 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6157 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6158 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6161 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6162 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6163 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6164 binary data in such strings.
6166 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6168 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6169 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6170 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6171 failure, which is pointless.
6173 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6175 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6177 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6178 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6179 Sender: header lines.
6181 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6182 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6183 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6185 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6186 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6187 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6188 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6189 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6192 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6193 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6194 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6195 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6196 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6198 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6199 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6200 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6203 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6204 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6206 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6207 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6209 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6211 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6213 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6215 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6218 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6220 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6222 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6223 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6224 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6225 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6227 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6228 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6234 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6235 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6236 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6238 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6239 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6240 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6241 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6242 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6243 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6245 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6246 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6247 verification failure".
6249 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6250 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6251 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6252 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6254 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6255 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6256 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6257 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6258 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6259 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6260 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6261 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6262 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6263 treated as a timeout.
6265 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6266 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6267 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6268 not set for Exim filters).
6270 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6271 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6272 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6274 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6276 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6277 try to make them clearer.
6279 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6280 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6282 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6284 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6286 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6287 only the Cygwin environment.
6289 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6290 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6291 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6292 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6293 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6295 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6296 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6297 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6298 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6299 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6300 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6301 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6303 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6304 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6306 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6308 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6309 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6310 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6312 To: susanne@some.where
6314 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6315 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6316 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6317 of addresses in From: header lines).
6319 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6320 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6321 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6323 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6324 treated as non-personal.
6326 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6327 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6329 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6331 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6333 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6334 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6335 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6337 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6338 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6340 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6341 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6342 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6343 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6344 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6345 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6347 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6348 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6349 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6350 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6351 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6352 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6353 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6354 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6356 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6358 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6359 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6361 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6362 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6363 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6365 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6366 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6368 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6369 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6370 rather than long int.
6372 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6374 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6380 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6381 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6382 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6383 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6384 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6385 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6391 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6392 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6394 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6395 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6396 socklen_t is defined.
6398 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6401 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6404 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6405 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6406 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6407 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6408 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6410 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6411 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6412 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6413 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6415 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6416 of flapping under certain conditions.
6418 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6419 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6420 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6422 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6424 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6426 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6427 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6428 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6429 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6431 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6432 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6433 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6434 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6435 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6436 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6437 preserved with the message after it was received.
6439 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6440 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6441 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6442 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6443 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6444 test suite worked just fine.
6446 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6447 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6448 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6450 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6451 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6454 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6455 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6456 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6457 does not fully solve it.
6459 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6460 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6461 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6462 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6463 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6465 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6466 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6467 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6469 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6470 string, for example:
6472 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6474 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6475 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6476 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6477 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6478 the routers could not see them.
6480 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6481 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6483 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6484 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6487 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6488 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6489 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6490 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6491 that needed quoting.
6493 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6494 was not being matched caselessly.
6496 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6499 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6500 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6501 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6502 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6503 when use_sender is false.
6505 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6507 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6509 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6511 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6512 the configuration file.
6514 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6515 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6517 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6519 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6520 bytes in the message body.
6522 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6523 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6526 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6528 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6530 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6531 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6532 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6533 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6540 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6541 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6543 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6544 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6545 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6546 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6547 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6549 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6550 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6552 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6553 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6554 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6556 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6557 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6558 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6560 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6563 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6564 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6565 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6566 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6567 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6568 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6569 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6575 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6576 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6577 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6578 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6579 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6580 default (and expected) setting.
6582 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6583 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6584 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6585 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6587 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6588 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6590 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6593 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6594 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6595 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6596 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6597 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6598 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6600 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6601 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6602 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6604 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6605 part (NOT match_host).
6607 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6609 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6610 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6611 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6612 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6613 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6614 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6615 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6616 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6617 the same named file.
6619 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6620 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6623 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6624 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6625 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6626 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6629 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6630 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6631 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6633 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6635 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6637 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6639 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6640 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6642 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6643 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6644 before starting the TLS session.
6646 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6648 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6649 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6651 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6652 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6653 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6654 colon in the middle).
6660 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6661 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6662 multiple configurations are in use.
6664 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6665 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6666 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6667 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6668 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6669 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6671 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6672 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6674 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6675 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6676 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6678 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6679 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6682 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6683 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6685 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6687 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6688 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6690 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6698 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6699 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6700 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6701 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6702 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6704 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6707 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6708 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6709 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6710 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6711 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6712 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6714 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6715 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6716 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6717 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6718 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6719 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6720 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6723 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6724 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6725 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6726 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6727 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6729 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6731 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6732 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6733 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6735 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6737 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6738 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6739 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6742 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6743 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6745 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6746 Three changes have been made:
6748 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6749 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6750 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6751 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6752 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6754 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6757 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6758 the modified behaviour.
6764 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6767 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6768 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6770 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6771 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6772 try to track down a specific problem.
6774 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6775 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6776 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6778 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6781 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6782 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6783 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6784 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6785 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6786 some earlier ones do not.
6788 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6790 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6791 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6792 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6793 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6794 address literals are enabled, of course).
6796 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6798 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6799 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6800 by a command such as
6804 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6806 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6808 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6809 remained set. It is now erased.
6811 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6812 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6814 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6815 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6816 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6817 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6818 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6819 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6820 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6821 appropriate error code.
6823 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6824 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6825 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6826 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6827 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6828 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6830 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6831 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6832 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6834 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6835 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6836 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6837 terminate the header.
6839 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6840 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6841 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6843 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6844 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6845 (4.30/29). In particular:
6847 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6850 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6851 to write a maildirsize file.
6853 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6854 the transport, the new value overrides.
6856 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6859 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6860 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6861 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6864 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6865 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6866 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6869 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6870 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6871 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6873 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6874 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6877 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6878 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6879 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6881 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6883 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6885 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6887 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6888 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6891 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6892 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6893 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6894 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6895 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6896 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6897 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6900 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6901 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6902 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6903 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6904 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6907 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6908 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6909 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6910 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6911 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6912 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6913 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6914 cached value only when the same options are set.
6916 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6918 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6919 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6920 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6921 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6922 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6924 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6925 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6926 it is clearly obsolete.
6928 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6931 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6932 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6933 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6936 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6937 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6938 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6939 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6940 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6942 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6943 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6944 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6945 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6947 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6949 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6951 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6952 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6955 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6956 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6957 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6958 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6959 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6960 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6963 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6964 with the -f command-line option.
6966 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6967 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6968 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6969 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6970 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6971 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6973 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6974 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6977 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6978 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6979 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6980 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6981 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6982 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6983 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6984 buffer is too small.
6986 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6987 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6989 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6990 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6991 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6992 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6993 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6994 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6995 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6996 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6997 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6999 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7000 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7001 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7003 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7004 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7007 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7008 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7009 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7010 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7011 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7013 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7014 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7015 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7016 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7019 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7021 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7023 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7024 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7026 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7027 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7028 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7030 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7031 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7032 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7033 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7034 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7036 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7037 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7038 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7039 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7040 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7041 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7042 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7044 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7045 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7046 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7047 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7048 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7049 the test of how many are available.
7051 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7052 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7053 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7054 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7055 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7056 new message is started.
7058 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7059 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7061 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7062 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7064 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7065 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7066 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7069 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7070 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7071 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7072 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7073 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7074 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7075 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7077 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7078 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7079 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7080 interpreted as octal.
7082 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7085 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7086 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7087 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7088 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7089 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7090 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7092 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7093 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7094 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7095 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7097 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7098 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7099 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7100 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7102 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7103 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7106 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7107 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7109 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7111 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7112 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7113 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7114 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7116 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7117 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7118 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7119 supplied", which is not helpful.
7121 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7122 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7123 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7125 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7126 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7127 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7128 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7129 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7130 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7131 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7132 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7134 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7135 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7136 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7137 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7138 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7140 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7141 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7142 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7143 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7144 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7145 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7147 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7148 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7149 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7151 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7153 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7154 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7155 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7158 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7160 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7161 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7162 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7163 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7164 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7165 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7166 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7167 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7169 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7170 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7171 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7172 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7173 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7175 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7178 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7179 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7180 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7181 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7182 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7183 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7184 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7185 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7186 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7192 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7193 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7194 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7196 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7199 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7200 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7201 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7203 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7204 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7205 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7206 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7207 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7208 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7210 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7211 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7212 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7213 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7214 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7215 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7216 the Exim test suite.
7218 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7219 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7220 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7221 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7223 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7224 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7225 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7226 specify it in this variable.
7228 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7229 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7230 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7231 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7233 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7234 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7235 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7236 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7238 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7239 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7240 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7241 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7242 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7244 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7246 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7249 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7250 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7251 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7252 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7253 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7255 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7256 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7258 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7259 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7260 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7261 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7262 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7264 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7265 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7267 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7268 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7269 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7271 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7272 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7274 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7275 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7277 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7278 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7279 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7281 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7282 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7284 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7285 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7286 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7287 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7289 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7291 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7292 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7293 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7294 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7296 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7298 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7299 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7301 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7303 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7304 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7305 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7306 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7307 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7308 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7310 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7312 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7313 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7316 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7318 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7319 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7321 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7322 550 Sender verify failed
7324 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7325 the final line of the response.
7327 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7328 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7329 all other user lookups.
7331 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7334 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7335 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7336 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7337 result into an int without checking.
7339 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7340 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7341 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7343 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7344 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7345 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7346 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7348 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7351 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7352 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7354 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7355 to the empty sender.
7357 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7358 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7359 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7360 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7361 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7362 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7363 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7366 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7367 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7368 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7369 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7372 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7373 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7375 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7378 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7379 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7381 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7383 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7384 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7387 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7388 as soon as it is encountered.
7390 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7392 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7395 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7396 recognizes a tab character.
7398 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7399 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7400 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7401 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7403 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7405 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7408 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7410 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7412 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7413 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7416 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7417 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7418 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7419 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7420 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7422 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7423 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7425 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7426 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7427 list (.included file names were always shown).
7429 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7430 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7431 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7434 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7435 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7437 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7439 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7441 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7443 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7444 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7445 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7446 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7447 failures to open the logs.
7449 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7450 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7451 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7452 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7453 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7454 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7455 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7461 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7462 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7463 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7466 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7467 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7468 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7470 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7471 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7472 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7474 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7475 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7476 causing some misleading effects.
7478 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7479 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7480 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7482 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7483 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7484 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7485 queue-runner function directly.
7491 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7494 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7495 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7496 was always written to the default place.
7498 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7499 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7500 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7502 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7504 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7506 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7507 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7508 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7510 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7511 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7514 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7515 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7516 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7518 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7519 command line option is disabled.
7521 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7522 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7524 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7526 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7528 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7529 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7531 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7533 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7534 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7535 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7536 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7537 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7538 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7540 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7541 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7544 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7545 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7547 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7548 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7550 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7551 received was valid base64.
7553 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7554 name of the variable that was being set.
7556 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7558 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7559 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7560 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7561 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7562 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7563 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7565 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7567 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7568 nor realm was specified.
7570 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7571 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7572 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7573 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7575 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7576 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7577 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7579 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7580 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7581 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7583 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7584 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7585 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7586 some systems use these upper case variants.
7588 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7589 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7590 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7591 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7593 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7595 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7596 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7598 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7599 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7602 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7604 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7605 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7606 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7607 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7609 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7612 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7613 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7614 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7616 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7617 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7619 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7620 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7621 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7622 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7624 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7625 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7626 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7628 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7630 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7631 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7632 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7633 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7636 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7637 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7638 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7640 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7642 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7643 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7645 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7646 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7648 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7649 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7650 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7651 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7652 when emails are that large.
7659 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7660 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7662 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7663 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7664 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7666 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7667 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7668 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7670 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7671 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7672 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7673 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7674 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7676 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7677 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7678 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7679 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7680 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7683 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7684 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7685 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7686 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7687 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7688 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7689 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7690 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7691 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7692 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7693 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7694 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7695 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7696 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7698 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7699 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7702 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7703 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7704 error should be diagnosed.
7706 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7707 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7708 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7709 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7710 appeared instead of "NULL".
7712 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7713 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7714 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7715 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7716 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7717 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7720 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7721 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7722 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7728 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7729 or receiver verification errors.
7731 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7734 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7735 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7736 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7737 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7739 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7740 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7741 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7742 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7743 shouldn't happen again.
7745 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7746 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7747 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7749 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7750 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7752 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7754 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7755 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7757 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7758 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7761 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7762 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7763 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7765 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7766 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7767 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7768 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7770 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7771 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7772 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7773 to define what should happen).
7775 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7776 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7777 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7779 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7781 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7783 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7784 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7786 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7787 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7788 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7789 structure in all cases.
7791 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7792 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7793 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7794 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7796 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7797 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7800 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7801 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7803 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7804 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7806 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7807 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7808 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7810 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7811 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7812 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7814 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7815 the book and for uniformity.
7817 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7819 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7820 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7821 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7822 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7823 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7824 non-existent command as the problem.
7826 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7827 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7828 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7830 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7832 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7833 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7834 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7836 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7837 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7838 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7839 timestamps using strftime().
7841 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7842 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7844 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7845 transport-time rewrites.
7847 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7848 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7849 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7850 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7852 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7853 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7855 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7856 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7857 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7858 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7861 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7862 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7863 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7864 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7865 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7866 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7867 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7869 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7870 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7871 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7872 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7873 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7875 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7876 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7877 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7878 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7879 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7880 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7881 remaining text gets split now.
7883 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7884 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7885 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7886 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7888 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7889 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7890 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7891 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7894 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7895 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7896 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7897 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7898 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7899 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7900 passed through if needed.
7902 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7903 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7904 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7905 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7906 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7907 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7909 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7910 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7911 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7912 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7913 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7915 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7916 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7917 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7918 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7919 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7921 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7922 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7925 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7926 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7927 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7928 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7929 mayhem of various kinds.
7931 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7932 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7933 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7934 the right test for positive values.
7936 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7937 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7938 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7939 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7940 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7941 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7942 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7943 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7944 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7945 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7948 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7951 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7952 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7955 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7956 the existing equality matching.
7958 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7959 dealing with inode numbers.
7961 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7962 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7963 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7965 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7966 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7967 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7968 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7971 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7972 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7973 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7974 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7975 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7976 relay addresses has also been removed.
7978 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7980 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7981 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7982 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7984 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7985 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7986 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7987 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7988 processing applies to CR:
7990 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7991 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7993 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7994 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7995 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7996 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7998 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7999 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8000 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8002 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8003 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8004 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8005 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8006 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8007 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8010 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8013 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8014 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8015 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8016 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8019 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8021 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8023 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8025 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8026 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8027 not considered personal.
8029 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8031 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8033 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8035 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8036 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8037 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8038 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8039 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8040 header lines, and spool format errors.
8042 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8043 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8044 for more flexibility.
8046 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8047 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8048 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8050 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8053 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8054 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8055 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8056 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8057 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8058 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8059 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8060 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8061 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8063 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8064 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8065 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8066 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8067 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8068 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8069 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8071 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8072 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8073 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8075 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8076 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8077 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8078 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8079 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8080 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8081 instead of killing the process with assert().
8083 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8084 than Unicode encoding.
8086 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8087 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8088 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8089 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8091 77. Added process_log_path.
8093 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8094 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8096 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8097 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8099 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8100 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8101 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8103 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8104 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8105 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8106 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8107 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8110 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8111 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8114 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8115 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8116 they will be used during message reception.
8122 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.