1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
8 JH/01 Support list of dkim results in the dkim_status ACL condition, making
9 it more usable in the data ACL.
11 JH/02 Bug 3040: Handle error on close of the spool data file during reception.
12 Previously This was only logged, on the assumption that errors would be
13 seen for a previous fflush(). However, a fuse filesystem has been
14 reported as showing this an error for the fclose(). The spool is now in
15 an uncertain state, and we have logged and responded acceptance. Change
16 this to respond with a temp-reject, wipe spoolfiles, and log the error
19 JH/03 Bug 3030: Fix handling of DNS servfail respons for DANE TLSA. When hit
20 during a recipient verify callout, a QUIT command was attempted on the
21 now-closed callout channel, causing a paniclog entry.
23 JH/04 Bug 3039: Fix handling of of an empty log_reject_target, with
24 a connection_reject log_selector, under tls_on_connect. Previously
25 with this combination, when the connect ACL rejected, a spurious
26 paniclog entry was made.
28 JH/05 Fix TLS resumption for TLS-on-connect. This was broken by the advent
29 of loadbalancer-detection for resumption, in 4.96 - which tries to
30 use the EHLO response. SMTPS does not have one at the time it is starting
31 TLS. Change the default for the smtp transport host_name_extract option
32 to be a static string, for TLS-on-connect cases; meaning that resumption
33 will always be attempted (unless deliberately overriden).
35 JH/06 Bug 3054: Fix dnsdb lookup for a TXT record with multiple chunks, with a
36 chunk-separator specification. This was broken by hardening introduced
39 JH/07 Bug 3050: Fix -bp for old message_id format spoolfiles. Previously it
40 included the -H with the id; this also messed up exiqgrep.
42 JH/08 Bug 3056: Tighten up parsing of DKIM DNS records. Previously, whitespace
43 was not properly skipped and empty elements would cause mis-parsing.
44 Tighten parsing of DKIM header records. Previously, all but lowercase
45 alpha chars would be ignored in potential tag names.
47 JH/09 Bug 3057: Add heuristic for spotting mistyped IPv6 addresses in lists
48 being searched. Previously we only had one for IPv4 addresses. Per the
49 documentation, the error results by default in a no-match result for the
50 list. It is logged if the unknown_in_list log_selector is used.
52 JH/10 Bug 3058: Ensure that a failing expansion in a router "set" option defers
53 the routing operation. Previously it would silently stop routing the
56 JH/11 Bug 3046: Fix queue-runs. Previously, the arrivel of a notification or
57 info-request event close in time to a scheduled run timer could result in
58 the latter being missed, and no further queue scheduled runs being
59 initiated. This ouwld be more likely on high-load systems.
61 JH/12 Refuse to accept a line "dot, LF" as end-of-DATA unless operating in
62 LF-only mode (as detected from the first header line). Previously we did
63 accept that in (normal) CRLF mode; this has been raised as a possible
64 attack scenario (under the name "smtp smuggling").
66 JH/13 Add an fdatasync call for the received message data file in spool, before
67 loggging reception and sending the SMTP ack. Previously we only flushed
68 the stdio buffer so there was still the possibility of a disk error.
70 JH/14 Bug 3061: Avoid a split log line when trying to rewrite a malformed
71 address. Previously, for the last address in a header line (commonly
72 there is only one) the terminating newline was part of the logged
75 JH/15 Bug 3061: Ensure a log line is written for a malformed address in a
76 header, when parsing for address-qualification. Previously one was only
77 written if there were rewrite rules.
79 JH/16 Two-phase queue runs are now reported in the daemon startup log line and
82 JH/17 Bug 3064: Fix combination of "-q<period> -R <recipients>". Introduction of
83 the multiple-queue-runners facility for 4.97 broke this, giving only a
84 one-time run of the queue.
86 JH/18 Bug 3068: Log a warning for use of deprecated syntax in query-style
89 JH/19 Fix TLS startup. When the last expansion done before the initiation of a
90 TLS session resulted in a forced-fail, a misleading error was logged for
91 the expansino of tls_certificates. This would affect the common case of
92 that option being set (main-section options) but not having any variable
93 parts. It could also potentially affect tls_privatekeys. The underlyding
94 coding errors go back to 4.90 but were only exposed in 4.97.
96 JH/20 Bug 3047: A recent (somewhere between 10.34 and 10.42) version of the
97 pcre2 library starting allocating 20kB rather than 112 bytes per match
98 call, which broke the 2GB total limitation on Exim's memory management
99 when a user had over 104207 messages stored and the appendfile
100 maildir_quota_directory_regex option is in use. Release the allocated
101 memory every thosand files to avoid this.
102 The same issue arises with the ACL regex condition, which is applied
103 to every line of a received message.
105 JH/21 Bug 3059: Fix crash in smtp transport. When running for a message for
106 which all recipients had been handled (itself an issue) a null-pointer
107 deref was done on trying to write a retry record. Fix that by counting
108 the outstanding recipients before trying to transmit the message.
109 The situation arose for a second MX try within a transport run, when the
110 first had perm-rejected a recipient (the only one for the connection, in
111 the case seen) during pipelining, and then closed the TCP connection.
112 The transport classified that as an I/O error, leaving the message
113 outstanding but having marked up the recipient as dealt-with. It then
114 tried another MX because of the I/O error. Fix this by converting the
115 message-level status to ok if there was a close but all recipients were
116 dealt with. Thanks to Wolfgand Breyha for debug runs.
118 JH/22 The ESMTP_LIMITS facility (RFC 9422) is promoted from experimental status
119 and is now controlled by the build-time option DISABLE_ESMTP_LIMITS.
121 JH/23 Bug 3066: Avoid leaking lookup database credentials to log.
123 JH/24 Bug 3081: Fix a delivery process crash. When the router "errors_to"
124 option specified a fixed address, later rewriting on that address would
125 trip on the configuration data being readonly. Instead of modifying
126 in-place, copy data. Found and fixed by Peter Benie.
128 JH/25 Bug 3079: Fix crash in dbmnz. When a key was present for zero-length
129 data a null pointer was followed. Find and testcase by Sebastian Bugge.
131 JH/26 Fix encoding for an AUTH parameter on a MAIL FROM command. Previously
132 decimal 127 chars were not encoded, and lowercase hex was used for
133 encoded values. Outstanding since at least 1999.
135 JH/27 Fix crash in logging. When a message with a large number of recipients
136 had been received, and logging of recipients is enabled, the buffer used
137 for logging could reach limit. A read using a null pointer would then
138 be done, resulting in a crash of the receiving process before an SMTP
139 ACK for the message was returned to the sending system. Duplicate
140 messages were created as a result.
141 Find and debug help by Mateusz Krawczyk
143 JH/28 Bug 3086: Fix exinext for ipv6. Change the format of keys in the retry
144 DB, wrapping transport record bare-ip "host names" and ipv6
145 "host addresses" in square-brackets. This makes the parsing that
146 exinext does more reliable.
148 JH/29 Bug 3087: Fix SRS encode. A zero-length quoted element in the local-part
151 JH/30 Bug 3029: Avoid feeding Resent-From: to DMARC.
157 JH/01 The hosts_connection_nolog main option now also controls "no MAIL in
158 SMTP connection" log lines.
160 JH/02 Option default value updates:
161 - queue_fast_ramp (main) true (was false)
162 - remote_max_parallel (main) 4 (was 2)
164 JH/03 Cache static regex pattern compilations, for use by ACLs.
166 JH/04 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
167 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
168 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
170 JH/05 Follow symlinks for placing a watch on TLS creds files. This means
171 (under Linux) we watch the dir containing the final file; previously
172 it would be the dir with the first symlink. We still do not monitor
175 JH/06 Check for bad chars in rDNS for sender_host_name. The OpenBSD (at least)
176 dn_expand() is happy to pass them through.
178 JH/07 OpenSSL Fix auto-reload of changed server OCSP proof. Previously, if
179 the file with the proof had an unchanged name, the new proof(s) were
180 loaded on top of the old ones (and nover used; the old ones were stapled).
182 JH/08 Bug 2915: Fix use-after-free for $regex<n> variables. Previously when
183 more than one message arrived in a single connection a reference from
184 the earlier message could be re-used. Often a sigsegv resulted.
185 These variables were introduced in Exim 4.87.
186 Debug help from Graeme Fowler.
188 JH/09 Fix ${filter } for conditions that modify $value. Previously the
189 modified version would be used in construction the result, and a memory
192 JH/10 GnuTLS: fix for (IOT?) clients offering no TLS extensions at all.
193 Find and fix by Jasen Betts.
195 JH/11 OpenSSL: fix for ancient clients needing TLS support for versions earlier
196 than TLSv1,2, Previously, more-recent versions of OpenSSL were permitting
197 the systemwide configuration to override the Exim config.
199 HS/01 Bug 2728: Introduce EDITME option "DMARC_API" to work around incompatible
200 API changes in libopendmarc.
202 JH/12 Bug 2930: Fix daemon startup. When started from any process apart from
203 pid 1, in the normal "background daemon" mode, having to drop process-
204 group leadership also lost track of needing to create listener sockets.
206 JH/13 Bug 2929: Fix using $recipients after ${run...}. A change made for 4.96
207 resulted in the variable appearing empty. Find and fix by Ruben Jenster.
209 JH/14 Bug 2933: Fix regex substring match variables for null matches. Since 4.96
210 a capture group which obtained no text (eg. "(abc)*" matching zero
211 occurrences) could cause a segfault if the corresponding $<n> was
214 JH/15 Fix argument parsing for ${run } expansion. Previously, when an argument
215 included a close-brace character (eg. it itself used an expansion) an
218 JH/16 Move running the smtp connect ACL to before, for TLS-on-connect ports,
219 starting TLS. Previously it was after, meaning that attackers on such
220 ports had to be screened using the host_reject_connection main config
221 option. The new sequence aligns better with the STARTTLS behaviour, and
222 permits defences against crypto-processing load attacks, even though it
223 is strictly an incompatible change.
224 Also, avoid sending any SMTP fail response for either the connect ACL
225 or host_reject_connection, for TLS-on-connect ports.
227 JH/17 Permit the ACL "encrypted" condition to be used in a HELO/EHLO ACL,
228 Previously this was not permitted, but it makes reasonable sense.
229 While there, restore a restriction on using it from a connect ACL; given
230 the change JH/16 it could only return false (and before 4.91 was not
233 JH/18 Fix a fencepost error in logging. Previously (since 4.92) when a log line
234 was exactly sized compared to the log buffer, a crash occurred with the
235 misleading message "bad memory reference; pool not found".
236 Found and traced by Jasen Betts.
238 JH/19 Bug 2911: Fix a recursion in DNS lookups. Previously, if the main option
239 dns_again_means_nonexist included an element causing a DNS lookup which
240 itself returned DNS_AGAIN, unbounded recursion occurred. Possible results
241 included (though probably not limited to) a process crash from stack
242 memory limit, or from excessive open files. Replace this with a paniclog
243 whine (as this is likely a configuration error), and returning
246 JH/20 Bug 2954: (OpenSSL) Fix setting of explicit EC curve/group. Previously
247 this always failed, probably leading to the usual downgrade to in-clear
250 JH/21 Fix TLSA lookups. Previously dns_again_means_nonexist would affect
251 SERVFAIL results, which breaks the downgrade resistance of DANE. Change
252 to not checking that list for these lookups.
254 JH/22 Bug 2434: Add connection-elapsed "D=" element to more connection
257 JH/23 Fix crash in string expansions. Previously, if an empty variable was
258 immediately followed by an expansion operator, a null-indirection read
259 was done, killing the process.
261 JH/24 Bug 2997: When built with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO, bounce messages can
262 include an SMTP response string which is longer than that supported
263 by the delivering transport. Alleviate by wrapping such lines before
266 JH/25 Bug 2827: Restrict size of References: header in bounce messages to 998
267 chars (RFC limit). Previously a limit of 12 items was made, which with
268 a not-impossible References: in the message being bounced could still
269 be over-large and get stopped in the transport.
271 JH/26 For a ${readsocket } in TLS mode, send a TLS Close Alert before the TCP
272 close. Previously a bare socket close was done.
274 JH/27 Fix ${srs_encode ..}. Previously it would give a bad result for one day
277 JH/28 Bug 2996: Fix a crash in the smtp transport. When finding that the
278 message being considered for delivery was already being handled by
279 another process, and having an SMTP connection already open, the function
280 to close it tried to use an uninitialized variable. This would afftect
281 high-volume sites more, especially when running mailing-list-style loads.
282 Pollution of logs was the major effect, as the other process delivered
283 the message. Found and partly investigated by Graeme Fowler.
285 JH/29 Change format of the internal ID used for message identification. The old
286 version only supported 31 bits for a PID element; the new 64 (on systems
287 which can use Base-62 encoding, which is all currently supported ones
288 but not Darwin (MacOS) or Cygwin, which have case-insensitive filesystems
289 and must use Base-36). The new ID is 23 characters rather than 16, and is
290 visible in various places - notably logs, message headers, and spool file
291 names. Various of the ancillary utilities also have to know the format.
292 As well as the expanded PID portion, the sub-second part of the time
293 recorded in the ID is expanded to support finer precision. Theoretically
294 this permits a receive rate from a single comms channel of better than the
296 The major timestamp part of the ID is not changed; at 6 characters it is
297 usable until about year 3700.
298 Updating from previously releases is fully supported: old-format spool
299 files are still usable, and the utilities support both formats. New
300 message will use the new format. The one hints-DB file type which uses
301 message-IDs (the transport wait- DB) will be discarded if an old-format ID
302 is seen; new ones will be built with only new-format IDs.
303 Optionally, a utility can be used to convert spool files from old to new,
304 but this is only an efficiency measure not a requirement for operation
305 Downgrading from new to old requires running a provided utility, having
306 first stopped all operations. This will convert any spool files from new
307 back to old (losing time-precision and PID information) and remove any
308 wait- hints databases.
310 JH/30 Bug 3006: Fix handling of JSON strings having embedded commas. Previously
311 we treated them as item separators when parsing for a list item, but they
312 need to be protected by the doublequotes. While there, add handling for
315 JH/31 Bug 2998: Fix ${utf8clean:...} to disallow UTF-16 surrogate codepoints.
316 Found and fixed by Jasen Betts. No testcase for this as my usual text
317 editor insists on emitting only valid UTF-8.
319 JH/32 Fix "tls_dhparam = none" under GnuTLS. At least with 3.7.9 this gave
320 a null-indirection SIGSEGV for the receive process.
322 JH/33 Fix free for live variable $value created by a ${run ...} expansion during
323 -bh use. Internal checking would spot this and take a panic.
325 JH/34 Bug 3013: Fix use of $recipients within arguments for ${run...}.
326 In 4.96 this would expand to empty.
328 JH/35 Bug 3014: GnuTLS: fix expiry date for an auto-generated server
329 certificate. Find and fix by Andreas Metzler.
331 JH/36 Add ARC info to DMARC hostory records.
333 JH/37 Bug 3016: Avoid sending DSN when message was accepted under fakereject
334 or fakedefer. Previously the sender could discover that the message
335 had in fact been accepted.
337 JH/38 Taint-track intermediate values from the peer in multi-stage authentation
338 sequences. Previously the input was not noted as being tainted; notably
339 this resulted in behaviour of LOGIN vs. PLAIN being inconsistent under
340 bad coding of authenticators.
342 JH/39 Bug 3023: Fix crash induced by some combinations of zero-length strings
343 and ${tr...}. Found and diagnosed by Heiko Schlichting.
345 JH/40 Bug 2999: Fix a possible OOB write in the external authenticator, which
346 could be triggered by externally-supplied input. Found by Trend Micro.
349 JH/41 Bug 3000: Fix a possible OOB write in the SPA authenticator, which could
350 be triggered by externally-controlled input. Found by Trend Micro.
353 JH/42 Bug 3001: Fix a possible OOB read in the SPA authenticator, which could
354 be triggered by externally-controlled input. Found by Trend Micro.
357 JH/43 Bug 2903: avoid exit on an attempt to rewrite a malformed address.
358 Make the rewrite never match and keep the logging. Trust the
359 admin to be using verify=header-syntax (to actually reject the message).
361 JH/44 Bug 3033: Harden dnsdb lookups against crafted DNS responses.
364 HS/02 Fix string_is_ip_address() CVE-2023-42117 (Bug 3031)
370 JH/01 Move the wait-for-next-tick (needed for unique message IDs) from
371 after reception to before a subsequent reception. This should
372 mean slightly faster delivery, and also confirmation of reception
375 JH/02 Move from using the pcre library to pcre2. The former is no longer
376 being developed or supported (by the original developer).
378 JH/03 Constification work in the filters module required a major version
379 bump for the local-scan API. Specifically, the "headers_charset"
380 global which is visible via the API is now const and may therefore
381 not be modified by local-scan code.
383 JH/04 Fix ClamAV TCP use under FreeBSD. Previously the OS-specific shim for
384 sendfile() didi not account for the way the ClamAV driver code called it.
386 JH/05 Bug 2819: speed up command-line messages being read in. Previously a
387 time check was being done for every character; replace that with one
390 JH/06 Bug 2815: Fix ALPN sent by server under OpenSSL. Previously the string
391 sent was prefixed with a length byte.
393 JH/07 Change the SMTP feature name for pipelining connect to be compliant with
394 RFC 5321. Previously Dovecot (at least) would log errors during
397 JH/08 Remove stripping of the binaries from the FreeBSD build. This was added
398 in 4.61 without a reason logged. Binaries will be bigger, which might
399 matter on diskspace-constrained systems, but debug is easier.
401 JH/09 Fix macro-definition during "-be" expansion testing. The move to
402 write-protected store for macros had not accounted for these runtime
403 additions; fix by removing this protection for "-be" mode.
405 JH/10 Convert all uses of select() to poll(). FreeBSD 12.2 was found to be
406 handing out large-numbered file descriptors, violating the usual Unix
407 assumption (and required by Posix) that the lowest possible number will be
408 allocated by the kernel when a new one is needed. In the daemon, and any
409 child procesees, values higher than 1024 (being bigger than FD_SETSIZE)
410 are not useable for FD_SET() [and hence select()] and overwrite the stack.
411 Assorted crashes happen.
413 JH/11 Fix use of $sender_host_name in daemon process. When used in certain
414 main-section options or in a connect ACL, the value from the first ever
415 connection was never replaced for subsequent connections. Found by
418 JH/12 Bug 2838: Fix for i32lp64 hard-align platforms. Found for SPARC Linux,
419 though only once PCRE2 was introduced: the memory accounting used under
420 debug offset allocations by an int, giving a hard trap in early startup.
421 Change to using a size_t. Debug and fix by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.
423 JH/13 Bug 2845: Fix handling of tls_require_ciphers for OpenSSL when a value
424 with underbars is given. The write-protection of configuration introduced
425 in 4.95 trapped when normalisation was applied to an option not needing
428 JH/14 Bug 1895: TLS: Deprecate RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman parameters.
430 JH/15 Fix a resource leak in *BSD. An off-by-one error resulted in the daemon
431 failing to close the certificates directory, every hour or any time it
434 JH/16 Debugging initiated by an ACL control now continues through into routing
435 and transport processes. Previously debugging stopped any time Exim
436 re-execs, or for processing a queued message.
438 JH/17 The "expand" debug selector now gives more detail, specifically on the
439 result of expansion operators and items.
441 JH/18 Bug 2751: Fix include_directory in redirect routers. Previously a
442 bad comparison between the option value and the name of the file to
443 be included was done, and a mismatch was wrongly identified.
444 4.88 to 4.95 are affected.
446 JH/19 Support for Berkeley DB versions 1 and 2 is withdrawn.
448 JH/20 When built with NDBM for hints DB's check for nonexistence of a name
449 supplied as the db file-pair basename. Previously, if a directory
450 path was given, for example via the autoreply "once" option, the DB
451 file.pag and file.dir files would be created in that directory's
454 JH/21 Remove the "allow_insecure_tainted_data" main config option and the
455 "taint" log_selector. These were previously deprecated.
457 JH/22 Fix static address-list lookups to properly return the matched item.
458 Previously only the domain part was returned.
460 JH/23 Bug 2864: FreeBSD: fix transport hang after 4xx/5xx response. Previously
461 the call into OpenSSL to send a TLS Close was being repeated; this
462 resulted in the library waiting for the peer's Close. If that was never
463 sent we waited forever. Fix by tracking send calls.
465 JH/24 The ${run} expansion item now expands its command string elements after
466 splitting. Previously it was before; the new ordering makes handling
467 zero-length arguments simpler. The old ordering can be obtained by
468 appending a new option "preexpand", after a comma, to the "run".
470 JH/25 Taint-check exec arguments for transport-initiated external processes.
471 Previously, tainted values could be used. This affects "pipe", "lmtp" and
472 "queryprogram" transport, transport-filter, and ETRN commands.
473 The ${run} expansion is also affected: in "preexpand" mode no part of
474 the command line may be tainted, in default mode the executable name
477 JH/26 Fix CHUNKING on a continued-transport. Previously the usabliility of
478 the the facility was not passed across execs, and only the first message
479 passed over a connection could use BDAT; any further ones using DATA.
481 JH/27 Support the PIPECONNECT facility in the smtp transport when the helo_data
482 uses $sending_ip_address and an interface is specified.
483 Previously any use of the local address in the EHLO name disabled
484 PIPECONNECT, the common case being to use the rDNS of it.
486 JH/28 OpenSSL: fix transport-required OCSP stapling verification under session
487 resumption. Previously verify failed because no certificate status is
488 passed on the wire for the restarted session. Fix by using the recorded
489 ocsp status of the stored session for the new connection.
491 JH/29 TLS resumption: the key for session lookup in the client now includes
492 more info that a server could potentially use in configuring a TLS
493 session, avoiding oferring mismatching sessions to such a server.
494 Previously only the server IP was used.
496 JH/30 Fix string_copyn() for limit greater than actual string length.
497 Previously the copied amount was the limit, which could result in a
498 overlapping memcpy for newly allocated destination soon after a
499 source string shorter than the limit. Found/investigated by KM.
501 JH/31 Bug 2886: GnuTLS: Do not free the cached creds on transport connection
502 close; it may be needed for a subsequent connection. This caused a
503 SEGV on primary-MX defer. Found/investigated by Gedalya & Andreas.
505 JH/32 Fix CHUNKING for a second message on a connection when the first was
506 rejected. Previously we did not reset the chunking-offered state, and
507 erroneously rejected the BDAT command. Investigation help from
510 JH/33 Fis ${srs_encode ...} to handle an empty sender address, now returning
511 an empty address. Previously the expansion returned an error.
513 HS/01 Bug 2855: Handle a v4mapped sender address given us by a frontending
514 proxy. Previously these were misparsed, leading to paniclog entries.
520 JH/01 Bug 1329: Fix format of Maildir-format filenames to match other mail-
521 related applications. Previously an "H" was used where available info
522 says that "M" should be, so change to match.
524 JH/02 Bug 2587: Fix pam expansion condition. Tainted values are commonly used
525 as arguments, so an implementation trying to copy these into a local
526 buffer was taking a taint-enforcement trap. Fix by using dynamically
527 created buffers. Similar fix for radius expansion condition.
529 JH/03 Bug 2586: Fix listcount expansion operator. Using tainted arguments is
530 reasonable, eg. to count headers. Fix by using dynamically created
531 buffers rather than a local. Do similar fixes for ACL actions "dcc",
532 "log_reject_target", "malware" and "spam"; the arguments are expanded
533 so could be handling tainted values.
535 JH/04 Bug 2590: Fix -bi (newaliases). A previous code rearrangement had
536 broken the (no-op) support for this sendmail command. Restore it
537 to doing nothing, silently, and returning good status.
539 JH/05 Bug 2593: Fix "vacation" in Exim filter. Previously, when a "once"
540 record path was given (or the default used) without a leading directory
541 path, an error occurred on trying to open it. Use the transport's working
544 JH/06 Bug 2594: Change the name used for certificate name checks in the smtp
545 transport. Previously it was the name on the DNS A-record; use instead
546 the head of the CNAME chain leading there (if there is one). This seems
547 to align better with RFC 6125.
549 JH/07 Bug 2597: Fix a resource leak. Using a lookup in obtaining a value for
550 smtp_accept_max_per_host allocated resources which were not released
551 when the limit was exceeded. This eventually crashed the daemon. Fix
552 by adding a release action in that path.
554 JH/08 Bug 2598: Fix verify ACL condition. The options for the condition are
555 expanded; previously using tainted values was rejected. Fix by using
556 dynamically-created buffers.
558 JH/09 Relax restrictions on ACL verify condition needing access to message
559 headers. Previously they were only permitted in data and non-smtp ACLs;
560 permit also mime, dkim, prdr quit and notquit. Applies to header-syntax,
561 not_blind, header_sender and header_names_ascii verification.
563 JH/10 Bug 2603: Fix coding of string copying to only evaluate arguments once.
564 Previously a macro used one argument twice; when called with the
565 argument as an expression having side-effects, incorrect operation
566 resulted. Use an inlineable function.
568 JH/11 Bug 2604: Fix request to cutthrough-deliver when a connection is already
569 held open for a verify callout. Previously this wan not accounted for
570 and a corrupt onward SMTP conversation resulted.
572 JH/12 Bug 2607: Fix the ${srs_encode } expansion to handle quoted local_parts.
573 Previously they were embedded naively in the constructed address; when
574 needed, strip the quoting and quote the entire local_part.
575 Also make the inbound_srs expansion condition handle quoting.
577 JH/13 Fix dsearch "subdir" filter to ignore ".". Previously only ".." was
578 excluded, not matching the documentation.
580 JH/14 Bug 2606: Fix a segfault in sqlite lookups. When no, or a bad, filename
581 was given for the sqlite_dbfile a trap resulted.
583 JH/15 Bug 2620: Fix "spam" ACL condition. Previously, tainted values for the
584 "name" argument resulted in a trap. There is no reason to disallow such;
585 this was a coding error.
587 JH/16 Bug 2615: Fix pause during message reception, on systems that have been
588 suspended/resumed. The Linux CLOCK_MONOTONIC does not account for time
589 spent suspended, ignoring the POSIX definition. Previously we assumed
590 it did and a constant offset from real time could be used as a correction.
591 Change to using the same clock source for the start-of-message and the
592 post-message next-tick-wait. Also change to using CLOCK_BOOTTIME if it
593 exists, just to get a clock slightly more aligned to reality.
595 JH/17 Bug 2295: Fix DKIM signing to always semicolon-terminate. Although the
596 RFC says it is optional some validators care. The missing char was not
597 intended but triggered by a line-wrap alignment. Discovery and fix by
598 Guillaume Outters, hacked on by JH.
600 JH/18 Bug 2617: Fix a taint trap in parse_fix_phrase(). Previously when the
601 name being quoted was tainted a trap would be taken. Fix by using
602 dynamically created buffers. The routine could have been called by a
603 rewrite with the "h" flag, by using the "-F" command-line option, or
604 by using a "name=" option on a control=submission ACL modifier.
606 JH/19 SPF: change the Authentication-Results expansion component to give
607 smtp.helo when the sender domain is empty. Previously it gave
610 JH/20 Bug 2631: ACL dnslist conditions now ignore and log any lookups returns
611 not in 127.0.0.0/8 to help in spotting list domains taken over by a
612 domain-parking registrar.
614 JH/21 Bug 2630: Fix eol-replacement string for the ${readsocket } expansion.
615 Previously when a whitespace character was specified it was not inserted
616 after removing the newline.
618 JH/22 Bug 2265: Force SNI usage for smtp transport DANE'd connections, to be
619 the domain part of the recipient address. This overrides any tls_sni
620 option set, which was previously used.
622 JH/23 Logging: with the +tls_sni log_selector, do not wrap the received SNI
625 JH/24 Bug 2634: Fix a taint trap seen on NetBSD: the testing coded for
626 is_tainted() had an off-by-one error in the overenthusiastic direction.
627 Find and fix by Gavan. Although NetBSD is not a supported platform for
628 4.94 this bug could affect other platforms.
630 PP/01 Fix default prime selection to be consistent.
631 One path used ike23 still, instead of exim.dev.20160529.3; now both
632 execution flows will use the same DH primes (currently
633 exim.dev.20160529.3).
635 JH/25 OpenSSL: Fix back-compatibility behaviour surrounding tls_certificates
636 option in smtp transport, to match the documentation. Previously
637 verification was not being done in some cases where it should have been.
639 JH/26 Bug 2646: fix a memory usage issue in ldap lookups. Previously, when more
640 than one server was defined and depending on the platform memory layout
641 details, an internal consistency trap could be hit while walking the list
644 JH/27 Bug 2648: fix the passing of an authenticator public-name through spool
645 files. The value is used by the authresults expansion item. Previously
646 if this was used in a router or transport, a crash could result.
648 JH/28 Fix spurious logging of select error. Some platforms, notably FreeBSD,
649 have a sufficient incidence of EINTR returns from select that an
650 interaction with other operations done by the main daemon loop exposed
651 a bug in the error-handling. This was benign apart from the log
654 JH/29 Bug 2675: add outgoing-interface I= element to deferred "==" log lines,
655 for consistency with delivered "=>" and failed "**" lines. While we're
656 there, handle PRX and TFO.
658 JH/30 Bug 2677: fix matching of long addresses. Since 4.93 a limit of 256 was
659 applied. This resulted, if any header-line rewrite rules were configured,
660 in a panic-log triggerable by sending a message with a long address in
661 a header. Fix by increasing the arbitrary limit to larger than a single
662 (dewrapped) 5322 header line maximum size.
664 JH/31 The ESMTP option name advertised for the SUPPORT_EARLY_PIPE build option
665 is changed from X_PIPE_CONNECT to PIPE_CONNECT. This is in line with
666 RFC 6648 which deprecates X- options in protocols as a general practice.
667 Changeover between the implementations is handled by the mechanisms
670 JH/32 Bug 2599: fix delay of delivery to a local address where there is also
671 a remote which uses callout/hold. Previously the local was queued.
673 JH/33 Fix a taint trap in the ${listextract } expansion when the source data
676 JH/34 Fix the placement of a multiple-message delivery marker in the delivery
677 log line. The asterisk is now consistently appended to the remote IP
678 (and port, if given), and will also be provided on defer and fail log
679 lines. Previously it could be placed on the local IP if that was being
680 logged, and was only provided on delivery lines.
682 JH/35 Bug 2343: Harden exim_tidydb against corrupt wait- files.
684 JH/36 Bug 2687: Fix interpretation of multiple ^ chars in a plaintext
685 authenticator client_send option. Previously the next char, after a pair
686 was collapsed, was taken verbatim (so ^^^foo became ^^foo; ^^^^foo became
687 ^^\x00foo). Fixed to get ^\x00foo and ^^foo respectively to match the
688 documentation. There is still no way to get a leading ^ immediately
689 after a NUL (ie. for the password of a PLAIN method authenticator.
691 JH/37 Enforce the expected size, for fixed-size records read from hints-DB
692 files. For bad sizes read, delete the record and whine to paniclog.
694 JH/38 When logging an AUTH failure, as server, do not include sensitive
695 information. Previously, the credentials would be included if given
696 as part of the AUTH command line and an ACL denied authentication.
698 JH/39 Bug 2691: fix $local_part_data. When the matching list element
699 referred to a file, bad data was returned. This likely also affected
702 JH/40 The gsasl authenticator now supports caching of the salted password
703 generated by the client-side implementation. This required the addition
704 of a new variable: $auth4.
706 JH/41 Fix daemon SIGHUP on FreeBSD. Previously, a named socket for IPC was
707 left undeleted; the attempt to re-create it then failed - resulting in
708 the usual "SIGHUP tp have daemon reload configuration" to not work.
709 This affected any platform not supporting "abstract" Unix-domain
710 sockets (i.e. not Linux).
712 JH/42 Bug 2693: Harden against a peer which reneges on a 452 "too many
713 recipients" response to RCPT in a later response, with a 250. The
714 previous coding assumed this would not happen, and under PIPELINING
715 would result in both lost and duplicate recipients for a message.
717 JH/43 Bug 2694: Fix weighted distribution of work to multiple spamd servers.
718 Previously the weighting was incorrectly applied. Similar fix for socks
719 proxies. Found and fixed by Heiko Schlichting.
721 JH/44 Bug 2701: Fix list-expansion of dns_ipv4_lookup. Previously, it did
722 not handle sub-lists included using the +namedlist syntax. While
723 investigating, the same found for dns_trust_aa, dns_again_means_nonexist,
724 dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains, srv_fail_domains,
727 JH/45 Use a (new) separate store pool-pair for DKIM verify working data.
728 Previously the permanent pool was used, so the store could not be freed.
729 This meant a connection with many messages would use continually-growing
732 JH/46 Use an exponentially-increasing block size when malloc'ing store. Do it
733 per-pool so as not to waste too much space. Previously a constant size
734 was used which resulted in O(n^2) behaviour; now we get O(n log n) making
735 DOS attacks harder. The cost is wasted memory use in the larger blocks.
737 JH/47 Use explicit alloc/free for DNS lookup workspace. This permits using the
738 same space repeatedly, and a smaller process footprint.
740 JH/48 Use a less bogus-looking filename for a temporary used for DH-parameters
741 for GnuTLS. Previously the name started "%s" which, while not a bug,
742 looked as if if might be one.
744 JH/49 Bug 2710: when using SOCKS for additional messages after the first (a
745 "continued connection") make the $proxy_* variables available. Previously
746 the information was not passed across the exec() call for subsequent
747 transport executions. This also mean that the log lines for the
748 messages can show the proxy information.
750 JH/50 Bug 2672: QT elements in log lines, unless disabled, now exclude the
751 receive time. With modern systems the difference is significant.
752 The historical behaviour can be restored by disabling (a new) log_selector
753 "queue_time_exclusive".
755 JH/51 Taint-check ACL line. Previously, only filenames (for out-of-line ACL
756 content) were specifically tested for. Now, also cover expansions
757 resulting in ACL names and inline ACL content.
759 JH/52 Fix ${ip6norm:} operator. Previously, any trailing line text was dropped,
760 making it unusable in complex expressions.
762 JH/53 Bug 2743: fix immediate-delivery via named queue. Previously this would
763 fail with a taint-check on the spoolfile name, and leave the message
766 HS/01 Enforce absolute PID file path name.
768 HS/02 Handle SIGINT as we handle SIGTERM: terminate the Exim process.
770 PP/01 Add a too-many-bad-recipients guard to the default config's RCPT ACL.
772 PP/02 Bug 2643: Correct TLS DH constants.
773 A missing NUL termination in our code-generation tool had led to some
774 incorrect Diffie-Hellman constants in the Exim source.
775 Reported by kylon94, code-gen tool fix by Simon Arlott.
777 PP/03 Impose security length checks on various command-line options.
778 Fixes CVE-2020-SPRSS reported by Qualys.
780 PP/04 Fix Linux security issue CVE-2020-SLCWD and guard against PATH_MAX
781 better. Reported by Qualys.
783 PP/05 Fix security issue CVE-2020-PFPSN and guard against cmdline invoker
784 providing a particularly obnoxious sender full name.
787 PP/06 Fix CVE-2020-28016 (PFPZA): Heap out-of-bounds write in parse_fix_phrase()
789 PP/07 Refuse to allocate too little memory, block negative/zero allocations.
792 PP/08 Change default for recipients_max from unlimited to 50,000.
794 PP/09 Fix security issue with too many recipients on a message (to remove a
795 known security problem if someone does set recipients_max to unlimited,
796 or if local additions add to the recipient list).
797 Fixes CVE-2020-RCPTL reported by Qualys.
799 PP/10 Fix security issue in SMTP verb option parsing
800 Fixes CVE-2020-EXOPT reported by Qualys.
802 PP/11 Fix security issue in BDAT state confusion.
803 Ensure we reset known-good where we know we need to not be reading BDAT
804 data, as a general case fix, and move the places where we switch to BDAT
805 mode until after various protocol state checks.
806 Fixes CVE-2020-BDATA reported by Qualys.
808 HS/03 Die on "/../" in msglog file names
810 QS/01 Creation of (database) files in $spool_dir: only uid=0 or the uid of
811 the Exim runtime user are allowed to create files.
813 QS/02 PID file creation/deletion: only possible if uid=0 or uid is the Exim
816 QS/03 When reading the output from interpreted forward files we do not
817 pass the pipe between the parent and the interpreting process to
818 executed child processes (if any).
820 QS/04 Always die if requested from internal logging, even is logging is
823 JH/54 DMARC: recent versions of the OpenDMARC library appear to have broken
824 the API; compilation noo longer completes with DMARC support included.
825 This affects 1.4.1-1 on Fedora 33 (1.3.2-3 is functional); and has
826 been reported on other platforms.
828 JH/55 TLS: as server, reject connections with ALPN indicating non-smtp use.
830 JH/56 Make the majority of info read from config files readonly, for defence-in-
831 depth against exploits. Suggestion by Qualys.
832 Not supported on Solaris 10.
834 JH/57 Fix control=fakreject for a custom message containing tainted data.
835 Previously this resulted in a log complaint, due to a re-expansion present
836 since fakereject was originally introduced.
838 JH/58 GnuTLS: Fix certextract expansion. If a second modifier after a tag
839 modifier was given, a loop resulted.
841 JH/59 DKIM: Fix small-message verification under TLS with chunking. If a
842 pipelined SMTP command followed the BDAT LAST then it would be
843 incorrectly treated as part of the message body, causing a verification
846 JH/60 Bug 2805: Fix logging of domain-literals in Message_ID: headers. They
847 require looser validation rules than those for 821-level addresses,
848 which only permit IP addresses.
854 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
855 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
856 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
858 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
860 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
861 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
864 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
865 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
866 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
868 JH/05 Regard command-line recipients as tainted.
870 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, when due to SIGTERM.
872 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
873 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
874 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
876 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
877 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
878 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
880 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
881 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
883 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
884 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
887 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
888 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
889 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
890 should both provide the file and set the option.
891 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
893 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
894 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
896 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
897 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
898 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
899 Authentication-Results: header.
901 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
902 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
903 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
904 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
906 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
907 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
908 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
909 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
910 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
911 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
912 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
914 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
915 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
916 copies while it is still usable.
918 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
919 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
920 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
922 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
923 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
925 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
926 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
927 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
928 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
930 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
931 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
932 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
935 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
936 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
937 - the pipe transport command
938 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
939 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
941 - paths used by single-key lookups
942 Previously this was permitted.
944 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
945 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
946 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
947 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
949 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
950 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
951 support larger malloc requests.
953 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
954 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
955 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
956 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
958 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
959 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
960 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
961 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
964 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
965 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
966 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
967 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
968 data being length-specified.
970 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
971 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
972 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
973 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
975 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
976 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
977 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
978 not being properly tracked.
980 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
981 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
982 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
983 minute could be seen.
985 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
986 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
987 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
989 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
990 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
992 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
993 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
996 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
998 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
999 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
1001 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
1002 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
1003 filesystem as sufficient validation.
1005 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
1006 argument is supplied.
1008 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
1009 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
1010 access under Exim's current working directory.
1012 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
1013 Previously no event was raised.
1015 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
1016 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
1017 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
1020 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
1021 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
1022 the size of the signature hash.
1024 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
1025 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
1027 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
1028 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
1029 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
1030 dropped between messages.
1032 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
1033 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
1034 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
1035 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
1037 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
1038 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
1039 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
1040 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
1041 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
1042 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
1043 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
1044 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
1045 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
1047 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
1048 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
1049 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
1051 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
1052 doesn't work. (Additionally add a new main config option to configure the
1059 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
1060 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
1062 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
1063 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
1064 its own TCP segment.
1066 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
1069 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
1071 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
1073 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
1074 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
1076 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
1077 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
1078 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
1079 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
1080 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
1081 suitably configured).
1083 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
1084 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
1086 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
1087 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
1090 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
1091 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
1093 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
1094 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
1095 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
1096 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
1099 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
1100 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
1101 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
1103 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
1106 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
1107 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
1109 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
1110 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
1111 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
1112 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
1115 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
1116 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
1117 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
1118 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
1119 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
1121 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
1122 shared (NFS) environment.
1124 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
1125 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
1128 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
1129 on some platforms for bit 31.
1131 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
1132 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
1133 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
1134 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
1135 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
1136 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
1137 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
1138 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
1140 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
1142 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
1143 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
1145 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
1146 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
1149 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
1150 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
1153 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
1154 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
1155 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previously the default was to
1158 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
1159 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
1160 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
1162 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
1163 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
1164 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
1165 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
1166 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
1168 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
1171 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
1172 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
1173 be requested on all coneections.
1175 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
1176 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
1178 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
1180 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
1181 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
1182 one for these; the option was ignored.
1184 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
1185 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
1186 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
1187 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
1189 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
1190 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
1191 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
1194 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
1195 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
1196 error ignored was made.
1198 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
1200 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
1201 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
1202 values, to catch one form of exploit.
1204 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
1205 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
1206 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
1208 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
1209 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
1212 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
1213 them in our smtp response.
1215 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
1216 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
1217 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
1218 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
1219 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
1221 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
1222 link count into consideration.
1224 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
1225 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
1227 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
1228 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
1229 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
1232 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
1234 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
1236 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
1238 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
1239 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
1240 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
1241 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
1243 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
1245 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
1246 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
1249 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
1250 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
1251 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
1253 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
1254 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
1255 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
1257 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
1258 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
1259 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
1260 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
1261 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
1262 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
1263 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
1264 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
1266 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
1267 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
1268 resulted in an indefinite loop.
1270 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
1271 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
1272 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
1274 JH/48 Bug 2784: fix shutdown=no in the ${readsocket) expansion item. Previously
1275 an incorrect mode was used for reading the result, resulting in it being
1282 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
1283 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
1285 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
1286 non-signal-safe functions being used.
1288 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
1289 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
1290 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
1292 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
1293 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
1294 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
1296 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
1297 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
1298 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
1299 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
1300 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
1303 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
1304 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
1306 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
1307 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
1308 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
1309 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
1310 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
1311 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
1312 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
1314 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
1315 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
1317 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
1320 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
1321 Previously this would segfault.
1323 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
1326 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
1327 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
1328 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
1329 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
1330 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
1331 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
1333 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
1335 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
1336 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
1337 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
1338 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
1340 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
1342 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
1343 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
1344 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
1345 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
1347 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
1349 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
1351 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
1352 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
1353 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
1355 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
1356 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
1357 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
1359 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
1361 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
1362 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
1363 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
1364 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
1366 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
1367 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
1368 promised '?' replacement.
1370 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
1372 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
1373 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
1374 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
1375 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
1376 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
1378 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
1379 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
1380 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
1382 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
1383 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
1384 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
1386 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
1387 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
1388 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
1390 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
1391 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
1392 hope that is portable enough.
1394 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
1395 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
1396 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
1397 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
1399 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
1400 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
1401 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
1403 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
1404 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
1405 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
1406 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
1408 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
1409 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
1411 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
1412 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
1413 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
1414 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
1416 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
1417 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
1418 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
1420 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
1421 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
1422 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
1423 the previous G, M, k.
1425 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
1426 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
1429 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
1430 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
1431 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
1432 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
1434 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
1435 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
1437 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
1438 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
1439 off past the nul-terimation.
1441 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
1442 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
1443 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
1444 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
1445 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
1447 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
1449 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
1450 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
1451 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
1454 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
1455 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
1457 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
1458 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
1459 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
1461 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
1462 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
1463 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
1465 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
1466 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
1472 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
1473 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
1474 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
1475 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
1476 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
1477 be defined in redis_servers.
1479 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
1480 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
1482 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
1483 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
1484 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
1485 extant use locations.
1487 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
1488 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
1490 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
1491 Previously only the last row was returned.
1493 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
1494 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
1495 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
1496 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
1499 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
1500 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
1501 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
1502 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
1503 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
1504 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
1505 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
1506 Main pool for expansions.
1507 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
1508 active in the testsuite.
1509 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
1511 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
1512 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
1513 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
1514 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
1517 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
1518 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
1521 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
1522 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
1523 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
1525 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
1526 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
1527 ClamAV interface method is removed.
1529 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
1530 rows affected is given instead).
1532 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
1533 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
1535 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
1536 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more recipients than the
1537 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
1538 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
1539 for all multi-message initiating connections.
1541 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
1542 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
1543 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
1545 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
1546 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
1547 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
1548 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
1551 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
1552 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
1553 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
1556 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
1558 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
1559 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
1561 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
1562 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
1563 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
1565 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
1566 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
1567 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
1570 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
1571 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
1573 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
1574 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
1575 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
1577 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
1578 for the build is renamed.
1580 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
1581 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
1582 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
1584 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
1585 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
1586 result replacing the original.
1588 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
1589 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
1590 and the resources needed to be freed.
1592 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
1594 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
1597 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
1598 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
1599 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
1600 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
1602 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
1603 length value. Previously this would segfault.
1605 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
1606 newer versions of the scanner.
1608 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
1609 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
1610 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
1611 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
1612 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
1613 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
1614 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
1616 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
1617 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
1618 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
1619 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
1620 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
1621 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
1622 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
1623 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
1624 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
1625 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
1627 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
1628 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
1630 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
1632 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
1633 allows proper process termination in container environments.
1635 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
1636 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
1638 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
1639 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
1640 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
1642 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
1643 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
1644 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
1645 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
1647 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
1648 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
1651 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
1652 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
1654 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
1655 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
1656 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
1657 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
1658 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
1660 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
1661 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
1664 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
1665 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
1667 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
1670 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
1671 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
1672 "bare" representation.
1674 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
1675 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
1676 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
1677 corrupted the output.
1683 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
1684 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
1685 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
1686 pairs of long lines into single ones.
1688 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
1689 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
1691 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
1692 This permits better logging.
1694 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
1695 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
1696 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
1697 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
1698 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
1699 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
1701 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
1702 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
1705 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
1706 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
1707 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
1709 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
1710 than 255 are no longer allowed.
1712 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
1713 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
1714 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
1715 client, there is no benefit for these.
1716 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
1717 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
1718 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
1721 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
1722 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
1724 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
1725 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
1726 erroneously found still-pending ones.
1728 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
1729 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
1731 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
1732 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
1733 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
1734 signature and again for transmission.
1736 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
1737 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
1738 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
1740 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
1741 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
1742 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
1743 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
1744 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
1745 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
1746 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
1748 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
1749 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
1750 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
1751 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
1753 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
1754 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
1755 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
1756 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
1757 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
1758 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
1761 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
1762 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
1763 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
1764 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
1767 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
1768 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
1769 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
1770 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
1773 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
1774 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
1777 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
1778 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
1779 banner-time rejection.
1781 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
1784 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
1785 is the name of a transport.
1788 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
1790 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
1791 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
1793 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
1794 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
1795 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
1798 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
1799 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
1800 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
1801 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
1803 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
1804 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
1805 initial verify call returned a defer.
1807 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
1808 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
1810 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
1811 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
1813 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
1814 if present. Previously it was ignored.
1816 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
1817 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
1819 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
1820 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
1823 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
1824 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
1826 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
1827 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
1828 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1830 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
1831 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
1832 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
1833 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
1835 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
1836 and confused the parent.
1838 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
1839 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
1841 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
1844 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
1845 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
1846 out-of-order delivery.
1848 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
1849 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1850 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1853 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1854 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1857 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1858 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1859 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1861 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1862 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1863 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1864 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1865 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1866 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1868 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1869 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1870 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1872 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1873 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1874 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1876 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1877 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1878 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1879 though a different problem.
1885 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1886 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1888 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1890 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1891 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1893 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1894 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1896 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1897 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1898 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1899 before acknowledging the chunk.
1901 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1902 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1903 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1905 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1906 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1907 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1910 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1911 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1912 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1914 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1915 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1917 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1918 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1919 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1920 body hash calculated value.
1922 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1923 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1924 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1926 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1928 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1929 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1931 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1932 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1933 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1935 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1936 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1937 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1938 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1939 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1940 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1942 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1943 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1944 past that check, despite the cost.
1946 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1947 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1948 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1950 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1951 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1952 TLS library to consume.
1954 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1956 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1958 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1959 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1960 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1961 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1962 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1963 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1964 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1966 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1968 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1970 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1971 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1972 should be warning-free.
1974 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1976 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1977 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1979 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1980 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1981 general solution here.
1983 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1984 already-broken messages in the queue.
1986 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1988 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1994 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1995 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1997 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1998 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1999 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
2001 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
2002 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
2003 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
2004 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
2005 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
2006 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
2007 if one fails this test.
2008 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
2009 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
2011 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
2012 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
2014 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
2015 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
2017 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
2018 in rewrites and routers.
2020 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
2021 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
2023 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
2024 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
2026 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
2028 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
2031 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
2032 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
2033 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
2034 connection after a verify cache hit.
2035 Do not update it with the verify result either.
2037 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
2038 when routing results in more than one destination address.
2040 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
2041 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
2042 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
2043 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
2044 when the cutthrough connection is made).
2046 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
2047 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
2049 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
2050 Previously they were not counted.
2052 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
2053 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
2054 that needed the lookup.
2056 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
2057 distinguished as "(=".
2059 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
2060 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
2062 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
2064 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
2065 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
2067 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
2068 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
2070 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
2071 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
2074 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
2075 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
2076 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
2077 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
2079 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
2081 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2082 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
2083 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
2085 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
2086 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
2087 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
2090 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
2091 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
2092 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
2095 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
2096 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
2097 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
2099 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
2100 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
2103 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
2105 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
2106 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
2108 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
2109 are not in the system include path.
2111 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
2112 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
2113 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
2114 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
2116 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
2117 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
2118 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
2120 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
2122 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
2123 an incoming connection.
2125 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
2128 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
2129 fallback to "prime256v1".
2131 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
2132 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
2138 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
2139 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
2140 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
2141 client dropping the TLS connection.
2143 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
2144 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
2146 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
2147 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
2148 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
2149 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
2152 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
2153 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
2154 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
2155 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
2156 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
2157 check on the next write.
2159 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
2160 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
2161 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
2162 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
2163 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
2165 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
2166 mime_regex ACL conditions.
2168 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
2169 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
2170 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
2172 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
2173 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
2174 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
2175 an authenticate fail is not an error.
2177 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
2178 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
2180 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
2181 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
2183 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
2184 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
2185 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
2188 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
2190 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
2192 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
2194 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
2195 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
2197 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
2198 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
2200 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
2202 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
2203 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
2205 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
2207 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
2208 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
2210 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
2212 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
2213 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
2214 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
2215 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
2216 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
2217 they will retry in-clear.
2218 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
2219 at installation time.
2221 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
2222 with the $config_file variable.
2224 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
2225 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
2226 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
2227 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
2228 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
2230 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
2231 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
2232 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
2233 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
2234 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
2236 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
2238 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
2239 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
2240 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
2241 list order is no longer honoured.
2243 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
2244 for DKIM processing.
2246 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2247 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
2249 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2250 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
2251 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
2252 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
2254 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
2255 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
2257 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
2258 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
2260 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
2261 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
2263 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
2265 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
2266 cached by the daemon.
2268 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
2269 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
2271 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
2272 keys are given for lookup.
2274 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
2275 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
2276 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
2277 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
2279 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
2280 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
2281 server-side so match that on older versions.
2283 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
2284 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
2285 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
2287 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
2288 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
2290 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
2291 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
2292 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
2293 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
2294 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
2295 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
2296 initial truncated version.
2298 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
2300 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
2302 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
2303 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
2305 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
2307 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
2309 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
2310 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
2313 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
2314 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
2317 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
2318 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
2320 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
2321 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
2324 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
2325 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
2326 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
2328 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
2329 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
2330 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
2331 extraction. Accept either.
2337 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
2340 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
2342 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
2345 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
2346 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
2347 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
2348 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
2350 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
2351 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
2352 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
2354 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
2355 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
2356 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
2359 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
2362 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
2363 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
2364 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
2365 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
2366 have a dsn_lasthop option.
2368 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
2369 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
2370 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
2372 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
2374 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
2375 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
2377 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
2378 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
2380 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
2383 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
2384 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
2386 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
2387 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
2388 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
2390 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2391 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
2392 specify a port-range.
2394 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
2395 timeout value per server.
2397 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
2398 now have the list separator specified.
2400 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
2403 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
2406 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
2408 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
2409 rather than the verbs used.
2411 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
2412 from 255 to 1024 chars.
2414 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
2416 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
2417 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
2419 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
2420 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
2422 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
2423 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
2425 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
2427 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
2429 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
2430 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
2431 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
2432 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
2434 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
2436 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
2437 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
2439 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
2440 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
2442 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
2444 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
2446 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
2448 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
2449 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
2451 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
2452 added for tls authenticator.
2454 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
2460 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
2461 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
2462 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
2463 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
2464 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
2465 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
2466 the script parsing/test process like normal.
2468 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
2469 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
2470 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
2471 function when detected.
2473 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
2474 cause callback expansion.
2476 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
2477 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
2478 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
2479 instead of bool when processing it.
2481 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
2482 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
2484 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
2486 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
2488 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
2490 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
2491 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
2493 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
2494 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
2495 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
2496 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
2497 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
2498 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
2500 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
2501 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
2504 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
2505 version 3.3.6 or later.
2507 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
2508 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
2509 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
2510 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
2511 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
2512 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
2515 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
2516 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
2518 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
2519 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
2520 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
2523 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
2524 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
2525 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
2527 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
2528 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
2530 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
2531 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
2534 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
2536 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
2537 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
2539 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
2540 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
2543 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
2545 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
2548 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
2549 output list separator was used.
2554 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
2555 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
2558 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
2559 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
2561 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
2563 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
2564 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
2570 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
2572 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
2573 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
2574 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
2575 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
2576 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
2577 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
2579 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
2580 utilities have not been installed.
2582 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
2583 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
2585 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
2586 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
2588 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
2589 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
2590 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
2591 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
2593 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
2595 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
2596 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
2598 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
2601 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
2603 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
2604 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
2605 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
2607 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
2608 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
2609 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
2610 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
2611 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
2612 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
2614 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
2616 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
2617 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
2619 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
2622 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
2624 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
2626 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
2627 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
2629 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
2630 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
2632 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
2634 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
2636 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
2637 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
2639 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
2640 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
2641 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
2643 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
2644 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
2645 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
2648 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
2650 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
2651 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
2654 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
2655 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
2658 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
2659 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
2661 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
2662 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
2664 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
2666 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
2667 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
2668 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
2670 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
2671 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
2673 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
2674 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
2677 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
2678 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
2679 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
2681 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
2683 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
2684 Christian Aistleitner.
2686 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
2688 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
2689 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2691 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
2692 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
2694 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
2695 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
2697 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
2698 support and error reporting did not work properly.
2700 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
2701 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
2703 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
2704 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
2705 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
2707 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
2709 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
2710 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
2713 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
2715 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
2716 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
2723 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
2725 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
2726 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
2728 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
2731 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
2732 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
2735 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
2737 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
2738 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
2739 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
2740 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
2741 using channel bindings instead).
2743 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
2744 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
2745 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
2746 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
2747 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
2750 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
2752 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
2754 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
2755 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
2757 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
2758 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
2759 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
2761 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
2763 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
2765 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
2766 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
2768 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
2770 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
2772 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
2774 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
2775 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
2777 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
2779 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
2780 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
2783 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
2784 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
2786 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
2787 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
2790 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
2792 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
2794 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
2795 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
2797 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
2800 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
2801 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
2803 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
2804 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
2806 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2808 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
2810 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
2813 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
2816 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
2818 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
2819 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
2820 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
2821 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
2823 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
2825 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
2826 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
2827 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
2828 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
2831 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
2832 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
2833 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
2835 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
2836 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
2837 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
2838 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
2840 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
2841 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
2842 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
2843 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
2844 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
2845 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
2846 delivery, as in LMTP.
2848 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
2849 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2851 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2853 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2857 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2858 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2859 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2860 username as equal to the username.
2862 This change corrects that bug.
2864 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2865 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2866 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2868 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2870 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2871 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2872 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2873 NULL dereference and crash.
2875 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2877 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2878 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2879 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2881 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2883 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2884 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2885 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2886 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2887 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2888 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2889 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2890 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2891 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2892 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2893 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2895 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2896 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2898 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2899 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2902 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2903 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2904 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2905 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2906 an empty string is now equivalent.
2908 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2909 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2910 not performing validation itself.
2912 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2913 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2915 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2918 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2920 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2921 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2922 other false fix of the same issue.
2923 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2926 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2927 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2929 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2930 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2931 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2933 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2934 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2935 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2937 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2939 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2941 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2942 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2944 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2947 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2948 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2949 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2950 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2951 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2953 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2954 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2956 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2957 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2960 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2961 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2962 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2963 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2965 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2967 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2968 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2969 from multiple comments on this bug.
2971 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2973 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2974 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2977 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2978 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2980 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2981 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2987 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2989 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2995 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2996 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2997 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2999 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
3001 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
3004 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
3006 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
3008 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
3010 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
3011 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
3013 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
3014 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
3016 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
3017 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
3019 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
3020 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
3021 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
3023 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
3025 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
3026 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
3028 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
3030 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
3032 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
3033 non-compliant senders.
3034 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
3036 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
3037 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
3038 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
3040 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
3041 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
3042 in spool file corruption.
3044 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
3045 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
3046 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
3049 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
3050 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
3051 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3053 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
3054 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
3056 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
3058 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
3060 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
3062 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
3063 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
3064 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
3066 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
3067 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3068 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
3069 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
3071 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
3072 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
3074 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
3075 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
3076 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
3077 resolver implementation change.
3079 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
3080 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
3082 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
3084 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
3086 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
3087 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
3089 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
3090 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
3092 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
3093 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
3095 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
3096 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
3097 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
3098 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
3099 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
3101 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3103 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
3104 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
3105 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
3107 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
3109 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
3110 read-only, out of scope).
3111 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
3113 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
3114 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
3115 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
3116 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
3118 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
3120 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
3121 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
3122 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
3123 real issues in debug logging.
3125 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
3126 assignment on my part. Fixed.
3128 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
3129 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
3130 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
3132 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
3133 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
3134 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
3137 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
3138 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
3140 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
3141 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
3142 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
3143 needs to override this, it can.
3145 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
3146 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
3147 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3149 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
3150 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
3151 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
3152 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
3154 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
3160 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
3161 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
3163 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
3165 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
3168 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
3169 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
3171 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
3172 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
3173 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
3175 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
3176 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
3177 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
3178 not safe for signals.
3180 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
3181 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
3182 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
3183 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
3186 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
3188 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
3189 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
3190 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
3191 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
3192 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
3194 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
3195 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
3196 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
3197 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
3198 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
3199 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
3201 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
3202 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
3203 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
3204 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
3206 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
3207 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
3208 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
3209 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
3211 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
3212 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
3213 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
3214 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
3215 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
3216 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
3217 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
3218 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
3219 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
3221 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
3222 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
3223 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
3224 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
3226 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
3227 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
3228 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
3229 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
3230 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
3231 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
3232 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
3233 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
3234 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
3235 details in the main documentation.
3237 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
3239 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
3241 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
3242 repository when doing development or release builds.
3244 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
3245 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
3247 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
3248 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
3251 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
3253 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
3254 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
3256 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
3257 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3259 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
3260 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3262 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
3263 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
3265 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
3266 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
3268 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
3270 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
3273 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
3274 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
3275 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
3277 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
3279 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
3281 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
3282 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
3288 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
3290 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
3291 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
3293 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
3295 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
3297 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
3300 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
3301 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
3303 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
3304 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
3306 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
3307 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
3309 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
3312 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
3313 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
3315 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
3316 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
3317 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
3318 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
3320 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
3321 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
3327 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
3330 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
3331 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
3332 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
3334 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
3335 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
3337 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
3338 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
3339 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
3341 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
3342 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
3344 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
3345 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
3347 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
3348 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
3350 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
3351 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
3353 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
3354 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
3356 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
3359 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
3360 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
3362 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
3363 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
3365 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
3366 SQL string expansion failure details.
3367 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
3369 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
3370 Patch from Simon Arlott.
3372 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
3373 extern declarations in function scope.
3374 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
3376 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
3377 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
3378 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
3381 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
3382 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3384 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
3385 Patch from Mark Zealey.
3387 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
3388 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
3390 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
3391 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
3393 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
3394 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
3397 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
3399 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
3401 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
3402 Patch by Simon Arlott
3404 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
3405 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
3411 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
3412 consequences so log it to the panic log.
3414 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
3415 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
3417 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
3419 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
3420 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
3421 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
3423 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
3424 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
3425 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
3427 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
3428 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
3429 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
3430 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
3432 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
3433 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
3434 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
3435 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
3437 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
3438 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
3439 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
3442 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
3445 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
3446 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
3447 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
3448 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
3449 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
3455 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
3456 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
3457 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
3459 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
3460 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
3462 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
3464 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
3466 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
3468 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
3470 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
3472 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
3473 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
3474 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
3475 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
3477 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
3478 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
3479 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3480 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
3481 more caution in buffer sizes.
3483 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
3485 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
3487 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
3489 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
3491 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
3493 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
3495 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
3497 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
3498 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
3499 ignore trailing whitespace.
3501 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
3503 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
3506 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
3507 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
3509 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
3510 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
3511 Notification from John Horne.
3513 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
3516 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
3517 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
3520 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
3523 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
3524 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
3525 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
3527 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
3528 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
3529 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
3532 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
3533 option (effectively making it always true).
3535 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
3536 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
3538 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
3539 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
3541 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
3542 run-time user, instead of root.
3544 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
3545 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
3547 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
3548 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
3551 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
3552 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
3553 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
3555 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
3557 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
3563 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
3564 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
3567 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
3568 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
3571 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
3572 Patch from Alain Williams
3574 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
3576 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
3577 Patch from Andreas Metzler
3579 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
3580 Patch from Kirill Miazine
3582 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
3584 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
3586 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
3587 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
3589 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
3591 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
3593 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
3594 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
3595 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
3597 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
3598 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
3600 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
3601 Patch by Simon Arlott
3603 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
3604 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
3610 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
3612 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
3614 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
3616 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
3618 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
3624 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
3625 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
3627 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
3628 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
3631 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
3632 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
3633 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
3635 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
3636 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
3638 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
3639 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
3640 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
3641 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
3643 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
3644 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
3645 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
3647 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
3649 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
3651 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
3652 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
3654 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3656 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
3657 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
3658 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
3659 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
3661 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
3662 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
3664 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
3666 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
3668 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
3669 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
3671 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
3672 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
3674 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
3675 that they are available at delivery time.
3677 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
3679 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
3680 incoming_port log selectors.
3682 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
3683 setting expands to an empty string.
3685 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
3686 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3688 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
3689 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
3691 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
3692 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
3694 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
3695 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
3697 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
3698 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
3700 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
3701 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3703 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
3705 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
3706 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3708 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
3709 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
3711 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
3713 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
3714 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
3716 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
3718 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
3720 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
3723 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
3724 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3726 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
3727 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3729 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
3730 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
3732 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
3733 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
3735 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
3736 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3738 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
3739 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
3741 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
3742 plus update to original patch.
3744 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
3746 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
3747 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
3749 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
3751 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
3753 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
3755 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
3757 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
3758 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
3760 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
3761 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
3763 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
3764 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
3766 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
3767 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
3769 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
3771 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
3773 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
3775 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
3781 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
3782 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
3783 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
3785 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
3786 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
3787 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
3788 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
3789 build errors in sieve.c.
3791 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
3792 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
3793 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
3795 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
3797 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
3799 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
3801 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
3807 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3809 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
3810 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
3811 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
3812 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
3813 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
3814 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
3815 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
3816 for iplsearch lookups.
3818 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
3819 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
3820 previously such lookups could never work.
3822 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
3823 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
3824 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
3826 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
3829 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
3830 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
3831 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
3832 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
3833 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
3834 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
3836 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
3837 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
3839 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
3840 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
3841 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
3842 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
3843 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
3844 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
3846 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
3849 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3851 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3852 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3855 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3856 by clients under certain conditions.
3858 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3859 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3861 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3863 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3864 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3866 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3868 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3870 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3872 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3873 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3875 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3877 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3878 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3880 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3882 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3884 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3885 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3886 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3887 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3889 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3890 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3891 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3893 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3894 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3896 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3898 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3900 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3902 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3903 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3904 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3910 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3911 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3914 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3915 issue a MAIL command.
3917 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3919 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3921 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3922 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3923 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3924 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3925 item. This has been fixed.
3927 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3928 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3930 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3931 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3933 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3934 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3935 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3937 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3939 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3940 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3941 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3942 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3943 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3945 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3946 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3947 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3949 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3950 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3951 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3952 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3954 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3956 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3958 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3959 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3960 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3961 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3962 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3964 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3966 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3967 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3968 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3971 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3973 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3975 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3977 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3979 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3981 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3982 no_callout_flush is set.
3984 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3985 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3986 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3989 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3991 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3992 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3993 other ACL rejections are.
3995 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3996 with slight modification.
3998 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3999 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
4001 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
4002 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
4005 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
4006 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
4008 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
4010 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
4011 expansion side effects.
4013 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
4014 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
4015 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
4018 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
4019 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
4020 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
4022 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
4023 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
4024 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
4025 were accidentally chopped off.
4027 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
4028 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
4029 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
4030 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
4031 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
4032 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
4033 pipelining has not been advertised.
4035 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
4037 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
4038 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
4039 This has been fixed.
4041 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
4042 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
4043 reported on Solaris.
4045 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
4046 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
4047 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
4048 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
4049 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
4050 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
4051 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
4053 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
4056 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
4058 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
4060 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
4061 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
4062 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
4063 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
4064 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
4065 criteria to be more general.
4067 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
4068 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
4069 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
4070 host_all_ignored option.
4072 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
4073 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
4074 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
4075 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
4076 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
4077 is what is supposed to happen).
4079 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
4080 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
4081 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
4082 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
4083 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
4086 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
4087 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
4088 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
4089 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
4090 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
4091 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
4094 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4096 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
4097 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
4099 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
4100 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
4102 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
4104 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4106 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
4107 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
4108 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
4109 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
4110 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
4111 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
4112 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
4113 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
4114 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
4115 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
4116 least in a lot of common cases.
4118 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
4119 advertised in response to EHLO.
4125 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
4126 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
4128 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
4129 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
4131 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
4132 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
4133 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
4135 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
4136 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
4137 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
4138 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
4139 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
4145 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
4146 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
4149 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
4150 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
4151 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
4153 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
4154 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
4155 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
4156 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
4157 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
4158 rather than extend the field.
4164 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
4165 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
4166 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
4167 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
4170 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
4171 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
4172 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
4174 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
4175 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
4176 hence the _LINUX specificness.
4178 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
4179 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
4180 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
4183 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
4184 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
4185 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
4186 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
4187 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
4188 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
4189 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
4190 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
4191 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
4192 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
4193 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
4195 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
4198 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
4199 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
4200 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
4201 ignores EPIPE as well.
4203 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
4204 (quoted-printable decoding).
4206 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
4207 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
4209 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
4211 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
4213 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
4215 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
4216 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
4218 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
4221 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
4222 miscellaneous code fixes
4224 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
4227 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
4228 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
4229 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
4230 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
4231 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
4232 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
4233 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
4234 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
4236 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
4237 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
4238 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
4239 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
4241 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
4242 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
4243 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
4244 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
4245 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
4246 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
4247 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
4248 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
4249 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
4251 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
4254 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
4255 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
4256 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
4257 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
4258 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
4259 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
4260 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
4261 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
4263 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
4264 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
4267 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
4268 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
4269 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
4270 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
4271 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
4272 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
4273 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
4274 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
4275 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
4276 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
4277 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
4278 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
4279 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
4281 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
4282 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
4283 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
4284 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
4285 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
4286 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
4287 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
4289 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
4290 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
4291 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
4292 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
4293 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
4294 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
4295 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
4296 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
4297 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
4298 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
4300 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
4301 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
4302 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
4303 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
4304 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
4306 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
4307 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
4308 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
4309 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
4310 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
4311 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
4312 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
4314 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
4315 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
4316 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
4317 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
4318 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
4319 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
4322 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
4323 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
4324 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
4327 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
4328 if any retry times were supplied.
4330 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
4331 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
4332 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
4334 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
4336 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
4338 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
4339 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
4340 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
4341 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
4342 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
4343 before) are ignored.
4345 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
4346 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
4348 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
4349 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
4350 committing the later change.]
4352 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
4353 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
4354 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
4355 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
4356 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
4357 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
4358 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
4359 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
4360 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
4362 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
4363 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
4364 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
4365 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
4366 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
4367 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
4368 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
4369 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
4370 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
4372 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
4373 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
4374 hammering the server.
4376 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
4377 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
4379 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
4381 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
4382 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
4383 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
4385 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
4386 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
4387 one case where this was not true.
4389 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
4390 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
4391 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
4392 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
4395 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
4396 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
4397 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
4398 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4399 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
4400 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
4401 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
4402 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
4403 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
4406 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
4407 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
4408 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
4409 same for both kinds of LMTP.
4411 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
4412 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
4414 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
4415 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
4416 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
4418 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
4420 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
4422 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
4424 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
4425 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
4426 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
4427 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
4429 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
4430 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
4432 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
4433 be meaningful with "accept".
4435 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
4436 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
4438 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
4439 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
4440 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4442 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
4443 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
4444 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
4445 there is data to show.
4446 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
4448 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
4449 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
4450 as well as the number of messages.
4452 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
4453 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
4454 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
4456 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
4457 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
4458 have a flag are now skipped.
4460 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
4461 Added the -emptyok flag.
4463 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
4464 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
4466 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
4467 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4468 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
4470 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
4473 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
4474 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
4476 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
4478 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
4479 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
4481 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
4483 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
4484 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
4485 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
4486 contravention of the specifications.
4488 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
4489 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
4490 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
4492 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
4493 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
4494 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
4496 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
4498 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
4499 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
4500 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
4501 some point in the past.
4503 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
4504 transport during callout processing was broken.
4506 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
4507 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
4509 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
4510 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
4512 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
4513 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
4515 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
4521 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
4522 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
4524 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
4525 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
4526 there is data to show.
4527 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
4529 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
4530 as the number of messages in eximstats.
4532 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
4533 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
4535 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
4536 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
4538 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
4539 submissions from trusted users.
4541 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
4542 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
4544 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
4545 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
4546 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
4547 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
4548 there is now a framework to start from.
4550 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
4551 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
4552 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
4554 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
4556 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
4558 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
4560 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
4561 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
4562 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
4564 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
4567 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
4568 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
4569 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
4571 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
4572 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
4573 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
4576 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
4577 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
4578 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
4579 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
4580 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
4582 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
4583 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
4585 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
4587 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
4588 operations in malware.c.
4590 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
4593 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
4594 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
4595 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
4598 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
4599 statements to "add_header".
4601 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
4602 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
4604 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
4605 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
4608 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
4612 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
4613 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
4614 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
4617 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
4618 don't think Precedence: ever was.
4620 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
4621 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
4623 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
4624 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
4625 any possible encoding problems.
4627 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
4628 but not after initializing Perl.
4630 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
4631 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
4632 apparently, which is not desirable.
4634 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
4637 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
4640 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
4642 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
4643 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
4644 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
4645 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
4647 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
4648 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
4649 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
4651 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
4652 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
4653 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
4656 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
4657 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
4658 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
4659 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
4660 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
4666 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
4667 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
4669 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
4672 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
4673 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
4674 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
4675 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
4676 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
4677 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
4678 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
4679 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
4682 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
4684 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
4685 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
4686 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
4688 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
4689 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
4690 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
4693 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
4694 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
4696 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
4697 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
4698 option (which defaults to 0600).
4700 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4702 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
4703 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
4704 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
4705 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
4706 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
4707 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
4708 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
4710 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
4716 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
4717 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
4718 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
4719 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
4720 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
4721 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
4724 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
4725 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
4727 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
4729 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
4730 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
4731 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
4732 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
4733 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
4736 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
4737 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
4739 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
4740 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
4741 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
4742 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
4743 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
4745 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
4746 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
4747 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
4748 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
4750 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
4751 be the same on different OS.
4753 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
4756 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
4757 whether --show-vars was specified or not
4759 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
4762 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
4763 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
4764 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
4765 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
4766 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
4767 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
4770 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
4771 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
4772 when Exim was called.
4774 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
4775 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
4777 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
4778 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
4779 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
4780 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
4782 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
4783 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
4784 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
4785 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
4788 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
4789 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4790 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
4792 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
4793 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
4794 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
4796 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
4799 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
4800 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
4801 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
4802 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
4803 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
4804 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
4805 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
4806 values from the SRV records were lost.
4808 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
4809 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
4810 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
4812 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
4813 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
4814 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
4816 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
4817 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
4818 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
4819 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
4820 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
4821 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
4822 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
4823 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
4824 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
4825 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
4827 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
4828 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
4829 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
4831 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
4832 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
4834 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
4835 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
4836 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
4837 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
4840 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
4841 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
4842 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
4844 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
4845 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
4846 PH/23 above applies.
4848 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
4849 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4850 (for which there is an explicit test).
4852 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4854 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4855 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4856 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4857 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4858 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4860 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4861 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4862 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4863 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4865 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4866 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4867 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4869 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4871 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4873 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4874 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4875 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4877 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4878 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4879 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4880 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4881 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4883 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4884 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4885 the message gets confusing).
4887 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4888 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4889 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4890 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4892 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4893 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4894 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4895 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4898 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4899 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4900 the different processes.
4902 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4904 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4906 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4907 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4909 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4910 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4912 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4913 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4914 messages matching specified criteria.
4916 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4918 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4919 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4921 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4922 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4923 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4924 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4925 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4926 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4927 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4928 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4929 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4930 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4932 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4933 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4934 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4936 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4938 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4939 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4940 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4941 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4942 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4943 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4944 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4947 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4948 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4950 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4952 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4954 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4956 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4957 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4958 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4959 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4960 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4961 size of the count of files.
4963 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4965 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4968 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4969 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4970 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4971 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4973 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4974 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4975 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4977 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4978 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4979 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4980 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4981 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4983 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4984 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4986 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4987 will now be deprecated.
4989 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4991 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4992 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4993 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4995 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4996 with very large, slow to parse queues
4998 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
5000 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
5002 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
5003 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
5004 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
5007 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
5008 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
5009 Sieve code now uses this.
5011 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
5012 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
5014 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
5015 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
5017 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
5019 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
5020 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
5021 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
5022 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
5023 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
5025 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
5026 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
5027 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
5028 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
5030 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
5032 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
5034 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
5035 is preferred over IPv4.
5037 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
5038 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
5039 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
5040 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
5041 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
5042 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
5043 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
5045 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
5046 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
5047 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
5049 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
5051 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
5052 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
5053 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
5054 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
5055 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
5056 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
5057 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
5058 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
5059 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
5060 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
5061 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
5063 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
5064 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
5065 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
5071 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
5073 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
5074 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
5076 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
5077 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
5078 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5080 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
5082 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
5085 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
5088 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
5089 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
5090 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
5093 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
5094 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
5096 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
5097 inside the third argument.
5099 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
5100 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
5103 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
5104 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
5106 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
5107 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
5109 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
5111 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
5112 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
5115 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
5117 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
5118 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
5119 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
5120 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
5121 identical. For example:
5123 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
5125 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
5126 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
5127 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
5129 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
5130 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
5131 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
5132 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
5134 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
5135 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
5136 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
5139 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
5141 o fixes some comments
5142 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
5143 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
5144 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
5145 and documents the missing references header update
5149 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
5150 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
5153 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
5154 Electronic Mail") by including:
5156 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
5158 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
5159 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
5160 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
5161 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
5162 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
5164 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5166 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
5168 The auto-replied keyword:
5170 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
5171 message by an automatic process,
5173 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
5175 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
5176 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
5178 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
5179 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
5182 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
5183 to the default Received: header definition.
5185 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
5187 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
5188 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
5189 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
5191 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
5192 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
5193 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
5195 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
5196 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
5197 and treats the condition as false.
5199 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
5201 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
5202 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
5203 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
5204 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
5205 not changing the active code.
5207 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
5208 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
5210 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
5211 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
5213 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
5216 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
5217 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
5218 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
5219 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
5220 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
5221 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
5222 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
5223 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
5224 the text comparison.
5226 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
5227 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
5228 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
5229 The same fix has been applied.
5235 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
5236 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
5239 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
5240 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
5242 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
5244 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
5245 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
5246 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
5247 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
5248 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
5250 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
5251 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
5252 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
5253 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
5256 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
5264 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
5265 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
5267 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
5269 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
5271 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
5272 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
5273 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
5275 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
5276 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
5277 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
5279 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
5280 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
5283 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
5284 ${stat: expansion item.
5286 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
5287 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
5289 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
5290 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
5293 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5295 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
5298 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
5299 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
5301 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
5303 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
5304 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
5305 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
5306 the end of the subprocess.
5308 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
5309 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
5310 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
5311 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
5312 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
5314 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
5316 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
5318 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
5319 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
5321 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
5323 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
5325 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
5326 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
5329 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
5331 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
5332 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
5333 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
5335 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
5336 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
5338 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
5339 host errors such as "Connection refused".
5341 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
5342 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
5344 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
5345 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
5347 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
5348 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
5349 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
5350 contributed by a Radius user.
5352 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
5353 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
5355 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
5356 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
5358 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
5361 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
5362 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
5365 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
5366 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
5367 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
5368 header lines when this was not necessary.
5370 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
5372 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
5373 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
5374 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
5377 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
5380 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
5381 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
5382 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
5383 return code was incorrect.
5385 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
5387 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
5389 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
5391 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
5393 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
5394 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
5395 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
5396 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
5397 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
5400 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
5402 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
5403 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
5404 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
5405 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
5406 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
5407 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
5408 which is clearly wrong.
5410 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
5412 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
5413 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
5414 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
5417 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
5418 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
5420 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
5422 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
5423 the "build-* directories that it finds.
5425 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
5426 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
5428 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
5429 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
5431 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
5432 recipients, not senders.
5434 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
5435 the ratelimit ACL was added.
5437 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
5439 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
5441 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
5442 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
5443 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
5444 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
5446 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
5448 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
5449 clock is set back in time.
5451 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
5452 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
5454 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
5455 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
5457 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
5458 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
5461 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
5462 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
5465 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
5468 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
5470 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
5471 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
5472 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
5474 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
5475 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
5476 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
5477 helo verification defer as a failure.
5479 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
5480 actual error message.
5486 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
5488 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
5489 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
5490 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
5491 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
5493 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
5495 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
5496 can still be requested.
5498 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
5499 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
5500 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
5501 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
5503 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
5504 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
5505 circumstances, but probably never did.
5507 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
5508 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
5509 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
5512 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
5514 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
5515 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
5517 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
5519 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
5521 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
5522 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
5523 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
5524 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
5525 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
5526 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
5528 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
5529 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
5530 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
5531 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
5532 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
5533 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
5535 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
5536 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
5538 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
5539 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
5541 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
5542 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
5544 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
5546 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
5548 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
5550 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
5552 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
5554 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
5556 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
5558 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
5559 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
5560 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
5562 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
5563 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
5564 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
5565 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
5567 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
5568 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
5569 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
5571 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
5572 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
5573 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
5574 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
5576 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
5577 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
5580 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
5581 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
5582 should work with maildirs and everything.
5584 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
5585 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
5587 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
5590 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
5591 function for BDB 4.3.
5593 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
5595 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
5596 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
5599 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
5600 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
5601 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
5602 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
5603 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
5604 formatting function string_vformat().
5606 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
5607 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
5608 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
5609 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
5610 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
5611 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
5612 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
5613 falls back to the previous guessing code."
5615 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
5616 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
5619 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
5620 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
5622 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
5623 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
5624 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
5625 test. It is now used for both.
5627 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
5628 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
5629 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
5630 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
5631 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
5632 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
5634 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
5635 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
5636 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
5639 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
5640 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
5641 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
5643 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
5644 experimental DomainKeys support:
5646 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
5647 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
5648 the control was given.
5650 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
5652 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
5654 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
5656 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
5657 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
5658 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
5661 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
5662 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
5663 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
5664 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
5665 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
5666 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
5669 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
5670 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
5671 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
5672 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
5673 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
5674 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
5676 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
5677 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
5678 do -d+all out of habit.
5680 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
5681 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
5684 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
5685 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
5686 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
5687 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
5688 record types that Exim uses.
5690 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
5691 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
5692 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
5693 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
5694 non-existent file that was broken.
5696 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
5697 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
5699 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
5700 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
5701 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
5703 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
5705 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
5706 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
5707 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
5708 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
5709 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
5712 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
5713 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
5714 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
5715 at a slight CPU cost.
5717 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
5718 as requested by Marc Sherman.
5720 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
5723 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
5725 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
5726 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
5732 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
5733 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
5735 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
5737 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
5739 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
5740 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
5742 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
5743 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
5744 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
5745 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
5746 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
5747 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
5750 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
5751 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
5752 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
5753 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
5756 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
5757 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
5758 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
5759 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
5760 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
5761 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
5762 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
5765 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
5766 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
5768 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
5769 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
5770 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
5771 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
5772 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
5773 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
5775 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
5776 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
5777 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
5778 SMTP commands that take arguments.
5780 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
5783 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
5784 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
5786 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
5787 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
5788 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
5789 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
5792 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
5794 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
5795 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
5797 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
5798 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
5799 to what was transported.)
5801 TF/01 Added $received_time.
5803 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
5804 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
5805 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
5806 spamd_address settings.
5808 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
5809 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
5810 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
5811 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
5812 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
5814 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
5816 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
5817 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
5818 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
5819 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
5820 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
5822 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
5823 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
5825 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
5826 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
5827 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
5828 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
5829 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
5830 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
5831 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
5834 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
5835 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
5836 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
5837 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
5838 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
5839 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
5840 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
5843 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
5845 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
5846 driver and ACL definitions.
5848 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
5849 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5851 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5852 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5853 understands it better than I do:
5855 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5856 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5858 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5859 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5860 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5861 => three warnings about OTP not working
5862 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5864 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5865 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5866 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5867 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5869 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5870 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5872 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5873 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5874 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5876 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5877 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5880 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5881 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5884 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5885 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5886 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5888 warn !verify = sender
5889 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5891 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5892 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5894 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5896 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5897 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5899 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5900 nomenclature these days.)
5902 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5903 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5905 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5906 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5907 . First host does not offer TLS;
5908 . First host accepts first address;
5909 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5910 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5911 . Second host accepts second address.
5912 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5913 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5916 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5917 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5918 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5919 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5920 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5922 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5923 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5925 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5926 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5928 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5929 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5930 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5932 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5933 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5936 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5938 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5939 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5940 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5941 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5942 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5943 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5944 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5946 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5947 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5948 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5949 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5950 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5952 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5953 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5956 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5957 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5958 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5959 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5960 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5961 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5963 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5965 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5966 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5967 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5968 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5969 printable escape sequences.
5971 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5972 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5975 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5976 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5979 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5980 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5981 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5982 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5983 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5985 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5986 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5987 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5989 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5991 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5992 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5995 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5996 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5997 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5998 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5999 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
6000 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
6001 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
6002 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
6003 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
6006 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
6007 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
6008 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
6009 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
6013 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
6014 ----------------------------------------
6016 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
6017 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
6018 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
6019 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
6020 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
6021 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
6024 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
6025 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
6026 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
6027 historical information.
6033 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6035 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
6036 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
6038 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6039 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6042 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6043 filter fails to execute.
6045 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6046 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6047 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6048 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6049 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6051 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
6053 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6054 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6055 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6056 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6058 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6059 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6060 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6061 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6062 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6064 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
6066 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6068 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6069 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6070 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6071 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6073 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6074 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6075 sender verification.
6077 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
6078 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
6080 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
6082 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
6085 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6086 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6088 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6089 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6091 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
6092 information about exactly what failed.
6094 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
6096 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
6097 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
6098 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
6100 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
6101 It is now set to "smtps".
6103 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6104 ignore_target_hosts.
6106 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6107 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6108 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6109 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6112 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6113 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6114 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6116 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6117 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6118 wake it up if nothing else does.
6120 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6121 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6122 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6125 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6126 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6128 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
6130 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
6131 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
6132 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
6133 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
6134 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
6135 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
6136 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
6137 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
6139 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
6140 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
6141 than one IP address.
6143 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
6144 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
6145 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
6146 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
6148 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6149 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6150 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6151 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6152 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6155 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
6156 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
6157 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
6158 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
6160 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6161 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6164 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6165 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6166 $sender_host_address.
6168 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
6169 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
6170 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
6171 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
6172 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
6175 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
6177 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
6178 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
6180 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
6181 just the host names, not the priorities.
6183 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
6184 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
6185 controlled by a keyword.
6187 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
6188 multiple records are returned.
6190 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
6191 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
6194 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
6196 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
6197 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
6199 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6200 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6201 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6203 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
6205 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
6207 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
6209 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6210 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6211 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6212 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6213 because the tests only now provoked it.
6215 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6216 (this can affect the format of dates).
6218 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6219 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6220 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6221 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6223 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
6225 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6226 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6227 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6228 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6230 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6231 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6232 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6234 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6237 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6238 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6239 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6240 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6241 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6242 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6245 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
6246 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
6247 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
6250 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
6251 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
6252 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
6254 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
6255 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
6256 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
6257 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
6258 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
6259 so I produce this patch..."
6261 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
6262 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
6265 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6266 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6267 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6268 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6271 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
6273 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
6274 long debug lines gets shown.
6276 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
6277 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
6279 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
6281 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
6282 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
6283 of $primary_hostname.
6285 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6286 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6287 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6288 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6289 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6290 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6291 by change 4.50/55 above.
6293 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6294 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6295 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6296 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6297 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6298 running as the user.
6301 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6302 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6303 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6306 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
6307 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
6309 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6310 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6311 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6312 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6313 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6315 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
6316 This has been fixed.
6318 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6319 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6320 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6321 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6324 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
6326 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
6327 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
6328 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
6329 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
6331 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
6332 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
6334 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
6335 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
6336 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
6338 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
6339 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
6340 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
6343 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
6344 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
6345 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
6347 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
6348 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
6349 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
6350 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
6352 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
6353 during host lookups.
6355 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
6356 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
6358 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
6360 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
6361 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
6362 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
6363 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
6364 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
6367 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
6368 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
6370 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
6371 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
6372 for the non-SMTP ACL.
6374 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
6376 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
6377 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
6378 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
6379 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
6380 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
6381 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
6384 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
6385 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
6386 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
6387 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
6388 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
6390 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
6393 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
6395 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
6396 "vacation" handling.
6398 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
6399 OS variants using glibc.
6401 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
6404 ----------------------------------------------------
6405 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
6406 ----------------------------------------------------
6412 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
6413 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
6416 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
6417 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
6420 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
6421 filter fails to execute.
6423 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
6424 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
6425 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
6426 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
6427 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
6429 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
6430 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
6431 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
6432 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
6434 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
6435 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
6436 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
6437 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
6438 control that does not make sense is encountered.
6440 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
6442 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
6443 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
6444 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
6445 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
6447 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
6448 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
6449 sender verification.
6451 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
6452 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
6454 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
6455 the spool by the -Mrm option.
6457 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
6458 ignore_target_hosts.
6460 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
6461 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
6462 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
6463 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
6466 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
6467 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
6468 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
6470 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
6471 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
6472 wake it up if nothing else does.
6474 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
6475 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
6476 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
6479 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
6480 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
6482 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
6484 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
6485 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
6488 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
6489 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
6492 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
6493 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
6494 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
6495 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
6496 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
6499 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
6500 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
6503 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
6504 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
6505 $sender_host_address.
6507 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
6509 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
6510 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
6511 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
6513 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
6516 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
6517 (this can affect the format of dates).
6519 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
6520 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
6521 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
6522 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
6524 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
6525 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
6526 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
6528 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
6529 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
6530 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
6531 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
6533 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
6534 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
6535 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
6537 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
6540 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
6541 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
6542 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
6543 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
6544 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
6545 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
6548 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
6549 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
6550 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
6551 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
6554 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
6555 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
6556 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
6557 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
6558 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
6559 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
6560 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
6562 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
6563 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
6564 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
6565 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
6566 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
6567 running as the user.
6570 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
6571 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
6572 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
6575 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
6576 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
6577 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
6578 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
6579 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6581 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
6582 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
6583 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
6584 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
6587 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
6588 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
6589 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
6590 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
6591 because the tests only now provoked it.
6597 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
6598 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
6599 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
6600 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
6601 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
6602 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
6603 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
6605 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
6606 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
6609 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
6611 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
6613 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
6614 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
6617 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
6618 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
6619 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
6620 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
6621 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
6623 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
6624 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
6626 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
6628 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
6630 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
6633 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
6634 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
6636 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
6637 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
6638 affecting debugging statements).
6640 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
6642 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
6643 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
6644 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
6645 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
6646 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
6647 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
6648 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
6649 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
6650 after the received time, and all would be well.
6652 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
6653 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
6654 condition in an expansion string.
6656 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
6658 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
6659 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
6660 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
6661 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
6662 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
6663 job under whatever limits there are.
6665 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
6667 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
6670 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
6671 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
6672 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
6673 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
6676 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
6677 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
6678 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
6679 binary data in such strings.
6681 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
6683 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
6684 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
6685 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
6686 failure, which is pointless.
6688 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
6690 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
6692 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
6693 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
6694 Sender: header lines.
6696 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
6697 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
6698 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
6700 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
6701 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
6702 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
6703 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
6704 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
6707 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
6708 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
6709 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
6710 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
6711 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
6713 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
6714 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
6715 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
6718 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
6719 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
6721 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
6722 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
6724 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
6726 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
6728 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
6730 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
6733 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
6735 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
6737 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
6738 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
6739 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
6740 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
6742 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
6743 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
6749 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
6750 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
6751 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
6753 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
6754 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
6755 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
6756 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
6757 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
6758 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
6760 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
6761 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
6762 verification failure".
6764 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
6765 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
6766 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
6767 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
6769 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
6770 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
6771 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
6772 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
6773 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
6774 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
6775 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
6776 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
6777 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
6778 treated as a timeout.
6780 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
6781 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
6782 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
6783 not set for Exim filters).
6785 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
6786 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
6787 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
6789 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
6791 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
6792 try to make them clearer.
6794 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
6795 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
6797 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
6799 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
6801 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
6802 only the Cygwin environment.
6804 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
6805 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
6806 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
6807 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
6808 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
6810 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
6811 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
6812 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
6813 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
6814 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
6815 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
6816 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
6818 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
6819 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
6821 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
6823 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
6824 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
6825 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
6827 To: susanne@some.where
6829 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
6830 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
6831 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
6832 of addresses in From: header lines).
6834 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
6835 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
6836 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
6838 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
6839 treated as non-personal.
6841 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
6842 because it now seems ill-conceived.
6844 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
6846 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
6848 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
6849 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6850 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6852 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6853 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6855 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6856 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6857 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6858 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6859 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6860 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6862 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6863 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6864 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6865 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6866 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6867 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6868 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6869 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6871 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6873 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6874 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6876 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6877 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6878 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6880 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6881 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6883 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6884 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6885 rather than long int.
6887 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6889 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6895 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6896 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6897 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6898 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6899 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6900 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6906 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6907 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6909 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6910 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6911 socklen_t is defined.
6913 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6916 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6919 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6920 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6921 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6922 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6923 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6925 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6926 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6927 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6928 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6930 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6931 of flapping under certain conditions.
6933 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6934 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6935 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6937 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6939 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6941 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6942 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6943 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6944 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6946 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6947 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6948 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6949 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6950 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6951 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6952 preserved with the message after it was received.
6954 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6955 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6956 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6957 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6958 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6959 test suite worked just fine.
6961 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6962 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6963 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6965 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6966 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6969 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6970 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6971 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6972 does not fully solve it.
6974 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6975 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6976 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6977 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6978 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6980 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6981 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6982 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6984 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6985 string, for example:
6987 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6989 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6990 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6991 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6992 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6993 the routers could not see them.
6995 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6996 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6998 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6999 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
7002 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
7003 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
7004 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
7005 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
7006 that needed quoting.
7008 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
7009 was not being matched caselessly.
7011 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
7014 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
7015 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
7016 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
7017 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
7018 when use_sender is false.
7020 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
7022 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
7024 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
7026 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
7027 the configuration file.
7029 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
7030 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
7032 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
7034 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
7035 bytes in the message body.
7037 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
7038 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
7041 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
7043 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
7045 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
7046 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
7047 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
7048 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
7055 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
7056 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
7058 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
7059 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
7060 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
7061 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
7062 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
7064 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
7065 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
7067 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
7068 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
7069 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
7071 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
7072 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
7073 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
7075 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
7078 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
7079 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
7080 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
7081 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
7082 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
7083 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
7084 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
7090 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
7091 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
7092 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
7093 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
7094 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
7095 default (and expected) setting.
7097 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
7098 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
7099 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
7100 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
7102 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
7103 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
7105 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
7108 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
7109 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
7110 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
7111 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
7112 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
7113 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
7115 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
7116 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
7117 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
7119 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
7120 part (NOT match_host).
7122 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
7124 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
7125 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
7126 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
7127 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
7128 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
7129 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
7130 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
7131 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
7132 the same named file.
7134 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
7135 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
7138 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
7139 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
7140 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
7141 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
7144 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
7145 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
7146 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
7148 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
7150 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
7152 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
7154 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
7155 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
7157 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
7158 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
7159 before starting the TLS session.
7161 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
7163 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
7164 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
7166 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
7167 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
7168 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
7169 colon in the middle).
7175 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
7176 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
7177 multiple configurations are in use.
7179 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
7180 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
7181 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
7182 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
7183 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
7184 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
7186 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
7187 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
7189 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
7190 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
7191 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
7193 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
7194 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
7197 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
7198 that used bh_ and bheader_.
7200 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
7202 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
7203 allowing one more file than it should have been.
7205 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
7213 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
7214 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
7215 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
7216 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
7217 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
7219 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
7222 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
7223 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
7224 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
7225 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
7226 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
7227 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
7229 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
7230 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
7231 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
7232 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
7233 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
7234 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
7235 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
7238 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
7239 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
7240 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
7241 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
7242 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
7244 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
7246 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
7247 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
7248 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
7250 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
7252 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
7253 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
7254 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
7257 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
7258 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
7260 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
7261 Three changes have been made:
7263 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
7264 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
7265 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
7266 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
7267 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
7269 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
7272 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
7273 the modified behaviour.
7279 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
7282 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
7283 indeed breaks things for older releases.
7285 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
7286 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
7287 try to track down a specific problem.
7289 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
7290 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
7291 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
7293 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
7296 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
7297 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
7298 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
7299 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
7300 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
7301 some earlier ones do not.
7303 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
7305 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
7306 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
7307 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7308 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
7309 address literals are enabled, of course).
7311 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
7313 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
7314 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
7315 by a command such as
7319 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
7321 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
7323 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
7324 remained set. It is now erased.
7326 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
7327 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
7329 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
7330 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
7331 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
7332 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
7333 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
7334 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
7335 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
7336 appropriate error code.
7338 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
7339 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
7340 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
7341 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
7342 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
7343 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
7345 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
7346 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
7347 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
7349 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
7350 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
7351 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
7352 terminate the header.
7354 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
7355 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
7356 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
7358 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
7359 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
7360 (4.30/29). In particular:
7362 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
7365 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
7366 to write a maildirsize file.
7368 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
7369 the transport, the new value overrides.
7371 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
7374 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
7375 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
7376 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
7379 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
7380 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
7381 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
7384 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
7385 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
7386 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
7388 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
7389 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
7392 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
7393 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
7394 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
7396 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
7398 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
7400 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
7402 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
7403 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
7406 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
7407 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
7408 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
7409 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
7410 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
7411 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
7412 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
7415 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
7416 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
7417 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
7418 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
7419 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
7422 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
7423 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
7424 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
7425 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
7426 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
7427 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
7428 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
7429 cached value only when the same options are set.
7431 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
7433 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
7434 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
7435 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
7436 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
7437 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
7439 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
7440 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
7441 it is clearly obsolete.
7443 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
7446 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
7447 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
7448 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
7451 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
7452 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
7453 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
7454 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
7455 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
7457 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
7458 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
7459 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
7460 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
7462 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
7464 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
7466 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
7467 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
7470 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
7471 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
7472 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
7473 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
7474 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
7475 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
7478 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
7479 with the -f command-line option.
7481 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
7482 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
7483 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
7484 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
7485 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
7486 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
7488 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
7489 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
7492 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
7493 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
7494 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
7495 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
7496 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
7497 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
7498 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
7499 buffer is too small.
7501 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
7502 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
7504 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
7505 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
7506 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
7507 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
7508 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
7509 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
7510 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
7511 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
7512 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
7514 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
7515 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
7516 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
7518 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
7519 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
7522 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
7523 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
7524 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
7525 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
7526 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
7528 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
7529 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
7530 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
7531 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
7534 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
7536 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
7538 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
7539 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
7541 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
7542 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
7543 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
7545 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
7546 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
7547 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
7548 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
7549 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
7551 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
7552 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
7553 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
7554 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
7555 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
7556 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
7557 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
7559 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
7560 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
7561 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
7562 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
7563 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
7564 the test of how many are available.
7566 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
7567 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
7568 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
7569 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
7570 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
7571 new message is started.
7573 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
7574 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
7576 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
7577 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
7579 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
7580 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
7581 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
7584 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
7585 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
7586 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
7587 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
7588 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
7589 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
7590 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
7592 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
7593 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
7594 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
7595 interpreted as octal.
7597 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
7600 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
7601 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
7602 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
7603 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
7604 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
7605 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
7607 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
7608 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
7609 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
7610 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
7612 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
7613 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
7614 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
7615 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
7617 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
7618 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
7621 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
7622 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
7624 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
7626 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
7627 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
7628 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
7629 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
7631 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
7632 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
7633 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
7634 supplied", which is not helpful.
7636 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
7637 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
7638 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
7640 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
7641 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
7642 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
7643 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
7644 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
7645 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
7646 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
7647 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
7649 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
7650 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
7651 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
7652 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
7653 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
7655 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
7656 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
7657 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
7658 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
7659 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
7660 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
7662 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
7663 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
7664 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
7666 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
7668 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
7669 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
7670 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
7673 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
7675 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
7676 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
7677 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
7678 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
7679 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
7680 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
7681 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
7682 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
7684 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
7685 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
7686 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
7687 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
7688 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
7690 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
7693 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
7694 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
7695 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
7696 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
7697 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
7698 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
7699 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
7700 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
7701 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
7707 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
7708 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
7709 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
7711 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
7714 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
7715 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
7716 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
7718 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
7719 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
7720 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
7721 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
7722 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
7723 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
7725 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
7726 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
7727 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
7728 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
7729 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
7730 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
7731 the Exim test suite.
7733 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
7734 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
7735 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
7736 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
7738 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
7739 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
7740 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
7741 specify it in this variable.
7743 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
7744 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
7745 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
7746 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
7748 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
7749 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
7750 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
7751 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
7753 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
7754 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
7755 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
7756 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
7757 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
7759 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
7761 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
7764 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
7765 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
7766 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
7767 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
7768 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
7770 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
7771 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
7773 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
7774 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
7775 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
7776 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
7777 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
7779 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
7780 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
7782 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
7783 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
7784 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
7786 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
7787 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
7789 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
7790 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
7792 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
7793 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
7794 to get rid of the compiler warning.
7796 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
7797 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
7799 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
7800 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
7801 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
7802 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
7804 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
7806 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
7807 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
7808 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
7809 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
7811 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
7813 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
7814 line; previously there was no indication of these.
7816 25. Added .include_if_exists.
7818 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
7819 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
7820 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
7821 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
7822 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
7823 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
7825 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
7827 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
7828 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
7831 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
7833 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
7834 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
7836 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
7837 550 Sender verify failed
7839 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
7840 the final line of the response.
7842 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
7843 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
7844 all other user lookups.
7846 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
7849 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7850 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7851 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7852 result into an int without checking.
7854 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7855 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7856 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7858 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7859 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7860 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7861 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7863 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7866 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7867 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7869 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7870 to the empty sender.
7872 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7873 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7874 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7875 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7876 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7877 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7878 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7881 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7882 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7883 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7884 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7887 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7888 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7890 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7893 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7894 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7896 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7898 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7899 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7902 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7903 as soon as it is encountered.
7905 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7907 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7910 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7911 recognizes a tab character.
7913 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7914 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7915 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7916 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7918 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7920 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7923 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7925 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7927 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7928 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7931 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7932 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7933 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7934 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7935 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7937 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7938 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7940 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7941 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7942 list (.included file names were always shown).
7944 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7945 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7946 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7949 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7950 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7952 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7954 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7956 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7958 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7959 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7960 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7961 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7962 failures to open the logs.
7964 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7965 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7966 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7967 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7968 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7969 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7970 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7976 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7977 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7978 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7981 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7982 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7983 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7985 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7986 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7987 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7989 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7990 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7991 causing some misleading effects.
7993 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7994 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7995 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7997 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7998 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7999 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
8000 queue-runner function directly.
8006 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
8009 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
8010 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
8011 was always written to the default place.
8013 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
8014 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
8015 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
8017 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
8019 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
8021 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
8022 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
8023 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
8025 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
8026 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
8029 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
8030 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
8031 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
8033 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
8034 command line option is disabled.
8036 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
8037 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
8039 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
8041 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
8043 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
8044 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
8046 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
8048 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
8049 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
8050 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
8051 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
8052 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
8053 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
8055 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
8056 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
8059 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
8060 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
8062 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
8063 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
8065 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
8066 received was valid base64.
8068 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
8069 name of the variable that was being set.
8071 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
8073 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
8074 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
8075 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
8076 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
8077 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
8078 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
8080 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
8082 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
8083 nor realm was specified.
8085 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
8086 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
8087 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
8088 errors are given to SMTP connections.
8090 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
8091 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
8092 failing to send a response to QUIT.
8094 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
8095 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
8096 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
8098 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
8099 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
8100 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
8101 some systems use these upper case variants.
8103 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
8104 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
8105 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
8106 socket" when it tried to send the third.
8108 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
8110 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
8111 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
8113 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
8114 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
8117 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
8119 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
8120 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
8121 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
8122 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
8124 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
8127 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
8128 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
8129 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
8131 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
8132 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
8134 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
8135 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
8136 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
8137 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
8139 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
8140 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
8141 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
8143 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
8145 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
8146 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
8147 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
8148 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
8151 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
8152 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
8153 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
8155 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
8157 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
8158 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
8160 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
8161 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
8163 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
8164 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
8165 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
8166 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
8167 when emails are that large.
8174 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
8175 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
8177 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
8178 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
8179 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
8181 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
8182 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
8183 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
8185 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
8186 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
8187 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
8188 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
8189 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
8191 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
8192 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
8193 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
8194 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
8195 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
8198 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
8199 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
8200 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
8201 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
8202 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
8203 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
8204 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
8205 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
8206 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
8207 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
8208 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
8209 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
8210 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
8211 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
8213 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
8214 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
8217 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
8218 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
8219 error should be diagnosed.
8221 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
8222 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
8223 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
8224 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
8225 appeared instead of "NULL".
8227 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
8228 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
8229 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
8230 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
8231 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
8232 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
8235 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
8236 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
8237 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
8243 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
8244 or receiver verification errors.
8246 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
8249 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
8250 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
8251 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
8252 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
8254 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
8255 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
8256 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
8257 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
8258 shouldn't happen again.
8260 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
8261 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
8262 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
8264 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
8265 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
8267 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
8269 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
8270 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
8272 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
8273 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
8276 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
8277 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
8278 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
8280 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
8281 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
8282 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
8283 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
8285 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
8286 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
8287 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
8288 to define what should happen).
8290 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
8291 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
8292 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
8294 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
8296 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
8298 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
8299 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
8301 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
8302 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
8303 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
8304 structure in all cases.
8306 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
8307 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
8308 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
8309 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
8311 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
8312 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
8315 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
8316 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
8318 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
8319 MD5 (which is deprecated).
8321 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
8322 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
8323 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
8325 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
8326 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
8327 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
8329 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
8330 the book and for uniformity.
8332 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
8334 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
8335 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
8336 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
8337 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
8338 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
8339 non-existent command as the problem.
8341 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
8342 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
8343 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
8345 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
8347 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
8348 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
8349 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
8351 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
8352 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
8353 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
8354 timestamps using strftime().
8356 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
8357 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
8359 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
8360 transport-time rewrites.
8362 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
8363 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
8364 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
8365 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
8367 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
8368 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
8370 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
8371 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
8372 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
8373 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
8376 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
8377 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
8378 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
8379 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
8380 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
8381 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
8382 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
8384 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
8385 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
8386 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
8387 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
8388 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
8390 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
8391 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
8392 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
8393 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
8394 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
8395 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
8396 remaining text gets split now.
8398 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
8399 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
8400 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
8401 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
8403 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
8404 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
8405 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
8406 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
8409 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
8410 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
8411 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
8412 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
8413 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
8414 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
8415 passed through if needed.
8417 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
8418 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
8419 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
8420 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
8421 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
8422 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
8424 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
8425 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
8426 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
8427 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
8428 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
8430 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
8431 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
8432 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
8433 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
8434 incorrect size information for certain domains.
8436 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
8437 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
8440 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
8441 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
8442 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
8443 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
8444 mayhem of various kinds.
8446 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
8447 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
8448 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
8449 the right test for positive values.
8451 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
8452 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
8453 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
8454 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
8455 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
8456 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
8457 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
8458 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
8459 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
8460 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
8463 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
8466 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
8467 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
8470 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
8471 the existing equality matching.
8473 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
8474 dealing with inode numbers.
8476 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
8477 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
8478 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
8480 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
8481 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
8482 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
8483 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
8486 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
8487 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
8488 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
8489 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
8490 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
8491 relay addresses has also been removed.
8493 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
8495 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
8496 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
8497 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
8499 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
8500 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
8501 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
8502 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
8503 processing applies to CR:
8505 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
8506 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
8508 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
8509 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
8510 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
8511 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
8513 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
8514 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
8515 This is a VOB (very old bug).
8517 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
8518 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
8519 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
8520 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
8521 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
8522 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
8525 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
8528 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
8529 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
8530 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
8531 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
8534 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
8536 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
8538 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
8540 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
8541 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
8542 not considered personal.
8544 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
8546 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
8548 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
8550 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
8551 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
8552 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
8553 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
8554 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
8555 header lines, and spool format errors.
8557 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
8558 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
8559 for more flexibility.
8561 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
8562 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
8563 consulting and updating the callout cache.
8565 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
8568 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
8569 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
8570 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
8571 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
8572 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
8573 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
8574 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
8575 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
8576 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
8578 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
8579 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
8580 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
8581 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
8582 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
8583 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
8584 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
8586 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
8587 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
8588 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
8590 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
8591 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
8592 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
8593 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
8594 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
8595 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
8596 instead of killing the process with assert().
8598 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
8599 than Unicode encoding.
8601 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
8602 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
8603 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
8604 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
8606 77. Added process_log_path.
8608 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
8609 check_log_inodes was ignored.
8611 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
8612 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
8614 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
8615 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
8616 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
8618 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
8619 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
8620 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
8621 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
8622 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
8625 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
8626 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
8629 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
8630 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
8631 they will be used during message reception.
8637 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.