1 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
11 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
12 non-signal-safe functions being used.
14 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
15 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
16 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
18 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
19 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
20 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
21 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart.
23 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
24 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
25 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
26 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
27 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
28 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
29 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
31 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
34 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
35 Previously this would segfault.
37 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
40 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
42 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
44 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
45 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
46 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
48 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
49 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
50 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
51 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
53 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
54 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
55 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
57 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
58 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
59 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
60 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
62 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
63 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
64 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
66 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
67 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
68 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
70 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
71 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
74 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
75 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
76 off past the nul-terimation.
78 AM/01 GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they return error
79 codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
81 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
82 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
83 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
89 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
90 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
91 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
92 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
93 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
94 be defined in redis_servers.
96 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
97 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
99 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
100 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
101 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
102 extant use locations.
104 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
105 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
107 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
108 Previously only the last row was returned.
110 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
111 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
112 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
113 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
116 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
117 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
118 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
119 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
120 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
121 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
122 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
123 Main pool for expansions.
124 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
125 active in the testsuite.
126 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
128 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
129 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
130 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
131 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
134 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
135 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
138 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
139 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
140 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
142 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
143 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
144 ClamAV interface method is removed.
146 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
147 rows affected is given instead).
149 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
150 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
152 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
153 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
154 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
155 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
156 for all multi-message initiating connections.
158 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
159 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
160 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
162 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
163 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
164 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
165 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
168 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
169 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
170 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
173 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
175 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
176 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
178 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
179 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
180 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
182 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
183 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
184 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
187 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
188 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
190 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
191 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
192 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
194 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
195 for the build is renamed.
197 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
198 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
199 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
201 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
202 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
203 result replacing the original.
205 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
206 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
207 and the resources needed to be freed.
209 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
211 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
214 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
215 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
216 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
217 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
219 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
220 length value. Previously this would segfault.
222 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
223 newer versions of the scanner.
225 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
226 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
227 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
228 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
229 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
230 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
231 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
233 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
234 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
235 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
236 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
237 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
238 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
239 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
240 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
241 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
242 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
244 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
245 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
247 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
249 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
250 allows proper process termination in container environments.
252 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
253 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
255 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
256 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
257 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
259 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
260 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
261 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
262 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
264 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
265 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
268 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
269 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
271 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
272 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
273 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
274 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
275 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
277 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
278 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
281 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
282 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
284 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
287 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
288 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
289 "bare" representation.
291 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
292 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
293 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
294 corrupted the output.
300 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
301 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
302 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
303 pairs of long lines into single ones.
305 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
306 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
308 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
309 This permits better logging.
311 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
312 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
313 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
314 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
315 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
316 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
318 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
319 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
322 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
323 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
324 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
326 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
327 than 255 are no longer allowed.
329 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
330 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
331 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
332 client, there is no benefit for these.
333 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
334 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
335 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
338 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
339 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
341 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
342 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
343 erroneously found still-pending ones.
345 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
346 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
348 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
349 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
350 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
351 signature and again for transmission.
353 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
354 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
355 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
357 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
358 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
359 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
360 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
361 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
362 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
363 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
365 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
366 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
367 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
368 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
370 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
371 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
372 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
373 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
374 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
375 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
378 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
379 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
380 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
381 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
384 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
385 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
386 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
387 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
390 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
391 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
394 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
395 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
396 banner-time rejection.
398 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
401 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
402 is the name of a transport.
405 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
407 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
408 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
410 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
411 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
412 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
415 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
416 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
417 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
418 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
420 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
421 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
422 initial verify call returned a defer.
424 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
425 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
427 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
428 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
430 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
431 if present. Previously it was ignored.
433 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
434 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
436 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
437 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
440 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
441 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
443 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
444 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
445 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
447 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
448 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
449 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
450 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
452 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
453 and confused the parent.
455 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
456 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
458 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
461 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
462 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
463 out-of-order delivery.
465 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
466 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
467 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
470 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
471 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
474 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
475 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
476 one run was done. Bug 2189.
478 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
479 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
480 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
481 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
482 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
483 message is still "Temporary local problem".
485 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
486 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
487 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
489 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
490 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
491 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
493 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
494 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
495 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
496 though a different problem.
502 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
503 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
505 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
507 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
508 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
510 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
511 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
513 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
514 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
515 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
516 before acknowledging the chunk.
518 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
519 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
520 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
522 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
523 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
524 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
527 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
528 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
529 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
531 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
532 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
534 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
535 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
536 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
537 body hash calculated value.
539 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
540 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
541 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
543 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
545 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
546 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
548 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
549 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
550 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
552 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
553 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
554 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
555 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
556 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
557 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
559 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
560 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
561 past that check, despite the cost.
563 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
564 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
565 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
567 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
568 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
569 TLS library to consume.
571 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
573 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
575 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
576 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
577 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
578 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
579 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
580 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
581 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
583 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
585 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
587 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
588 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
589 should be warning-free.
591 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
593 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
594 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
596 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
597 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
598 general solution here.
600 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
601 already-broken messages in the queue.
603 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
605 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
611 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
612 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
614 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
615 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
616 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
618 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
619 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
620 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
621 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
622 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
623 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
624 if one fails this test.
625 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
626 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
628 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
629 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
631 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
632 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
634 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
635 in rewrites and routers.
637 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
638 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
640 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
641 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
643 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
645 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
648 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
649 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
650 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
651 connection after a verify cache hit.
652 Do not update it with the verify result either.
654 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
655 when routing results in more than one destination address.
657 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
658 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
659 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
660 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
661 when the cutthrough connection is made).
663 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
664 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
666 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
667 Previously they were not counted.
669 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
670 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
671 that needed the lookup.
673 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
674 distinguished as "(=".
676 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
677 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
679 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
681 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
682 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
684 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
685 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
687 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
688 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
691 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
692 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
693 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
694 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
696 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
698 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
699 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
700 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
702 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
703 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
704 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
707 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
708 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
709 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
712 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
713 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
714 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
716 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
717 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
720 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
722 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
723 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
725 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
726 are not in the system include path.
728 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
729 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
730 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
731 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
733 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
734 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
735 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
737 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
739 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
740 an incoming connection.
742 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
745 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
746 fallback to "prime256v1".
748 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
749 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
755 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
756 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
757 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
758 client dropping the TLS connection.
760 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
761 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
763 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
764 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
765 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
766 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
769 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
770 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
771 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
772 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
773 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
774 check on the next write.
776 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
777 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
778 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
779 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
780 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
782 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
783 mime_regex ACL conditions.
785 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
786 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
787 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
789 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
790 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
791 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
792 an authenticate fail is not an error.
794 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
795 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
797 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
798 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
800 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
801 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
802 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
805 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
807 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
809 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
811 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
812 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
814 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
815 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
817 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
819 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
820 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
822 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
824 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
825 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
827 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
829 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
830 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
831 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
832 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
833 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
834 they will retry in-clear.
835 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
836 at installation time.
838 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
839 with the $config_file variable.
841 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
842 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
843 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
844 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
845 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
847 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
848 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
849 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
850 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
851 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
853 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
855 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
856 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
857 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
858 list order is no longer honoured.
860 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
863 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
864 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
866 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
867 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
868 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
869 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
871 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
872 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
874 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
875 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
877 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
878 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
880 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
882 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
883 cached by the daemon.
885 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
886 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
888 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
889 keys are given for lookup.
891 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
892 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
893 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
894 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
896 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
897 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
898 server-side so match that on older versions.
900 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
901 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
902 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
904 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
905 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
907 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
908 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
909 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
910 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
911 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
912 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
913 initial truncated version.
915 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
917 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
919 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
920 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
922 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
924 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
926 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
927 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
930 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
931 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
934 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
935 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
937 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
938 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
941 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
942 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
943 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
945 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
946 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
947 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
948 extraction. Accept either.
954 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
957 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
959 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
962 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
963 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
964 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
965 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
967 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
968 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
969 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
971 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
972 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
973 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
976 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
979 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
980 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
981 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
982 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
983 have a dsn_lasthop option.
985 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
986 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
987 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
989 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
991 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
992 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
994 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
995 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
997 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1000 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1001 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1003 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1004 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1005 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1007 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1008 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1009 specify a port-range.
1011 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1012 timeout value per server.
1014 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1015 now have the list separator specified.
1017 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1020 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1023 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1025 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1026 rather than the verbs used.
1028 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1029 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1031 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1033 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1034 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1036 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1037 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1039 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1040 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1042 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1044 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1046 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1047 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1048 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1049 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1051 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1053 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1054 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1056 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1057 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1059 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1061 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1063 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1065 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1066 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1068 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1069 added for tls authenticator.
1071 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1077 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1078 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1079 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1080 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1081 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1082 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1083 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1085 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1086 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1087 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1088 function when detected.
1090 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1091 cause callback expansion.
1093 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1094 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1095 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1096 instead of bool when processing it.
1098 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1099 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1101 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1103 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1105 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1107 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1108 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1110 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1111 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1112 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1113 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1114 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1115 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1117 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1118 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1121 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1122 version 3.3.6 or later.
1124 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1125 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1126 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1127 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1128 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1129 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1132 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1133 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1135 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1136 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1137 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1140 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1141 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1142 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1144 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1145 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1147 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1148 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1151 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1153 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1154 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1156 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1157 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1160 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1162 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1165 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1166 output list separator was used.
1171 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1172 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1175 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1176 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1178 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1180 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1181 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1187 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1189 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1190 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1191 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1192 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1193 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1194 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1196 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1197 utilities have not been installed.
1199 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1200 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1202 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1203 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1205 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1206 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1207 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1208 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1210 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1212 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1213 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1215 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1218 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1220 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1221 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1222 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1224 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1225 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1226 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1227 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1228 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1229 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1231 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1233 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1234 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1236 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1239 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1241 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1243 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1244 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1246 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1247 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1249 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1251 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1253 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1254 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1256 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1257 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1258 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1260 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1261 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1262 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1265 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1267 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1268 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1271 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1272 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1275 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1276 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1278 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1279 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1281 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1283 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1284 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1285 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1287 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1288 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1290 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1291 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1294 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1295 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1296 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1298 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1300 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1301 Christian Aistleitner.
1303 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1305 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1306 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1308 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1309 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1311 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1312 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1314 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1315 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1317 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1318 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1320 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1321 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1322 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1324 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1326 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1327 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1330 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1332 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1333 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1340 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1342 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1343 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1345 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1348 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1349 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1352 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1354 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1355 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1356 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1357 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1358 using channel bindings instead).
1360 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1361 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1362 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1363 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1364 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1367 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1369 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1371 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1372 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1374 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1375 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1376 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1378 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1380 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1382 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1383 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1385 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1387 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1389 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1391 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1392 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1394 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1396 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1397 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1400 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1401 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1403 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1404 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1407 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1409 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1411 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1412 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1414 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1417 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1418 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1420 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1421 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1423 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1425 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1427 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1430 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1433 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1435 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1436 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1437 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1438 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1440 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1442 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1443 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1444 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1445 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1448 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1449 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1450 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1452 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1453 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1454 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1455 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1457 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1458 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1459 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1460 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1461 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1462 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1463 delivery, as in LMTP.
1465 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1466 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1468 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1470 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1474 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1475 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1476 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1477 username as equal to the username.
1479 This change corrects that bug.
1481 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1482 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1483 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1485 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1487 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1488 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1489 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1490 NULL dereference and crash.
1492 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1494 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1495 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1496 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1498 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1500 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1501 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1502 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1503 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1504 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1505 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1506 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
1507 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
1508 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1509 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1510 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1512 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1513 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1515 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1516 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1519 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1520 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1521 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1522 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1523 an empty string is now equivalent.
1525 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1526 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1527 not performing validation itself.
1529 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1530 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1532 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1535 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
1537 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1538 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1539 other false fix of the same issue.
1540 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1543 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1544 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1546 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1547 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1548 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1550 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1551 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1552 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1554 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1556 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1558 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1559 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1561 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1564 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1565 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1566 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1567 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1568 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
1570 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1571 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1573 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1574 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
1577 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1578 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1579 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1580 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1582 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1584 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1585 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1586 from multiple comments on this bug.
1588 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1590 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1591 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1594 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1595 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1597 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1598 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1604 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1606 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
1612 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1613 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1614 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1616 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1618 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1621 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1623 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
1625 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1627 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1628 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1630 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1631 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1633 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1634 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1636 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
1637 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1638 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
1640 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1642 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1643 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1645 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1647 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
1649 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1650 non-compliant senders.
1651 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1653 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
1654 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
1655 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1657 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1658 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1659 in spool file corruption.
1661 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1662 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1663 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1666 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1667 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1668 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1670 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1671 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1673 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1675 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1677 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1679 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
1680 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1681 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1683 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1684 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
1685 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1686 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
1688 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1689 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1691 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1692 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1693 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1694 resolver implementation change.
1696 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1697 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1699 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1701 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1703 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1704 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1706 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1707 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1709 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
1710 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1712 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1713 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1714 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1715 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
1716 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
1718 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
1720 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
1721 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1722 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
1724 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
1726 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1727 read-only, out of scope).
1728 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1730 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1731 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1732 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1733 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1735 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1737 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1738 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1739 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1740 real issues in debug logging.
1742 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1743 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1745 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1746 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1747 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1749 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1750 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
1751 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1754 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1755 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1757 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
1758 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1759 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1760 needs to override this, it can.
1762 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1763 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1764 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1766 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1767 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1768 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1769 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1771 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
1777 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1778 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1780 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1782 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1785 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1786 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1788 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1789 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1790 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1792 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1793 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1794 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1795 not safe for signals.
1797 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1798 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1799 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1800 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1803 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1805 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1806 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1807 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1808 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
1809 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
1811 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1812 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1813 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1814 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1815 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1816 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1818 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1819 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1820 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1821 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1823 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1824 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1825 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1826 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1828 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1829 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1830 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1831 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1832 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1833 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1834 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1835 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1836 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1838 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1839 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1840 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1841 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1843 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1844 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1845 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1846 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1847 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1848 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1849 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1850 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1851 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1852 details in the main documentation.
1854 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1856 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1858 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1859 repository when doing development or release builds.
1861 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1862 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
1864 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1865 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1868 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1870 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
1871 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1873 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1874 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1876 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
1877 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1879 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1880 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
1882 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1883 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1885 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1887 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1890 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
1891 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1892 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1894 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1896 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
1898 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1899 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1905 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1907 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1908 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1910 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1912 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1914 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1917 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1918 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
1920 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1921 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1923 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1924 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1926 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1929 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
1930 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1932 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1933 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1934 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1935 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1937 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1938 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
1944 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
1947 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1948 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1949 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1951 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1952 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1954 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1955 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1956 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1958 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1959 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1961 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1962 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1964 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1965 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1967 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1968 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1970 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1971 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
1973 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1976 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1977 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1979 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1980 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1982 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1983 SQL string expansion failure details.
1984 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1986 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1987 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1989 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1990 extern declarations in function scope.
1991 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1993 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1994 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1995 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1998 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1999 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2001 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2002 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2004 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2005 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2007 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2008 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2010 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2011 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2014 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2016 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2018 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2019 Patch by Simon Arlott
2021 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2022 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2028 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2029 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2031 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2032 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2034 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2036 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2037 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2038 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2040 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2041 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2042 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2044 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2045 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2046 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2047 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2049 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2050 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2051 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2052 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2054 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2055 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2056 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2059 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2062 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2063 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2064 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2065 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2066 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2072 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2073 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2074 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2076 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2077 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2079 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2081 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2083 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2085 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2087 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2089 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2090 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2091 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2092 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2094 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2095 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2096 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2097 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2098 more caution in buffer sizes.
2100 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2102 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2104 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2106 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2108 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2110 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2112 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2114 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2115 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2116 ignore trailing whitespace.
2118 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2120 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2123 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2124 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2126 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2127 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2128 Notification from John Horne.
2130 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2133 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2134 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2137 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2140 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2141 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2142 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2144 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2145 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2146 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2149 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2150 option (effectively making it always true).
2152 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2153 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2155 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2156 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2158 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2159 run-time user, instead of root.
2161 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2162 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2164 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2165 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2168 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2169 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2170 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2172 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2174 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2180 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2181 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2184 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2185 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2188 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2189 Patch from Alain Williams
2191 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2193 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2194 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2196 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2197 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2199 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2201 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2203 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2204 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2206 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2208 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2210 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2211 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2212 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2214 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2215 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2217 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2218 Patch by Simon Arlott
2220 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2221 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2227 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2229 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2231 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2233 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2235 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2241 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2242 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2244 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2245 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2248 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2249 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2250 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2252 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2253 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2255 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2256 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2257 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2258 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2260 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2261 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2262 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2264 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2266 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2268 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2269 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2271 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2273 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2274 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2275 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2276 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2278 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2279 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2281 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2283 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2285 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2286 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2288 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2289 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2291 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2292 that they are available at delivery time.
2294 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2296 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2297 incoming_port log selectors.
2299 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2300 setting expands to an empty string.
2302 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2303 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2305 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2306 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2308 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2309 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2311 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2312 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2314 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2315 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2317 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2318 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2320 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2322 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2323 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2325 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2326 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2328 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2330 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2331 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2333 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2335 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2337 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2340 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2341 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2343 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2344 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2346 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2347 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2349 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2350 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2352 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2353 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2355 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2356 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2358 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2359 plus update to original patch.
2361 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2363 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2364 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2366 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2368 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2370 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2372 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2374 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2375 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2377 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2378 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2380 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2381 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2383 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2384 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2386 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2388 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2390 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2392 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2398 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2399 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2400 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2402 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2403 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2404 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2405 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2406 build errors in sieve.c.
2408 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2409 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2410 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2412 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2414 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2416 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2418 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2424 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2426 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2427 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2428 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2429 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2430 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2431 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2432 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2433 for iplsearch lookups.
2435 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2436 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2437 previously such lookups could never work.
2439 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2440 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2441 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2443 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2446 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2447 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2448 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2449 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2450 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2451 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2453 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2454 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2456 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2457 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2458 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2459 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2460 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2461 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2463 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2466 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2468 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2469 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2472 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2473 by clients under certain conditions.
2475 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2476 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2478 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2480 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2481 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2483 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2485 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2487 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2489 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2490 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2492 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2494 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2495 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2497 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2499 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2501 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2502 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2503 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2504 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
2506 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
2507 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2508 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2510 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
2511 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2513 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2515 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2517 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2519 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2520 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2521 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2527 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2528 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2531 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2532 issue a MAIL command.
2534 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2536 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2538 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2539 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2540 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2541 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2542 item. This has been fixed.
2544 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2545 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2547 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2548 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2550 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2551 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2552 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2554 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2556 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2557 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2558 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2559 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2560 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2562 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2563 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2564 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2566 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2567 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2568 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2569 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2571 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2573 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2575 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2576 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2577 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2578 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2579 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2581 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2583 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2584 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2585 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2588 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2590 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2592 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2594 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2596 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2598 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2599 no_callout_flush is set.
2601 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2602 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2603 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2606 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2608 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
2609 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
2610 other ACL rejections are.
2612 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2613 with slight modification.
2615 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2616 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2618 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2619 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2622 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2623 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2625 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2627 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2628 expansion side effects.
2630 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2631 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2632 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2635 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2636 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2637 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2639 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2640 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2641 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2642 were accidentally chopped off.
2644 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2645 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2646 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2647 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2648 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2649 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2650 pipelining has not been advertised.
2652 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2654 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2655 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2656 This has been fixed.
2658 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2659 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2660 reported on Solaris.
2662 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2663 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2664 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2665 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2666 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2667 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2668 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2670 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2673 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2675 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2677 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2678 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
2679 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2680 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2681 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2682 criteria to be more general.
2684 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2685 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2686 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2687 host_all_ignored option.
2689 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2690 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2691 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2692 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2693 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2694 is what is supposed to happen).
2696 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2697 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2698 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2699 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2700 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2703 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2704 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2705 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2706 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2707 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2708 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2711 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2713 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2714 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2716 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2717 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2719 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2721 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2723 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
2724 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2725 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2726 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2727 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2728 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2729 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2730 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
2731 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
2732 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2733 least in a lot of common cases.
2735 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2736 advertised in response to EHLO.
2742 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2743 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2745 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2746 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2748 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2749 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2750 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2752 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2753 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2754 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2755 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2756 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2762 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2763 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2766 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2767 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2768 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2770 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2771 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2772 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2773 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2774 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2775 rather than extend the field.
2781 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2782 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2783 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2784 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2787 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2788 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2789 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2791 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2792 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2793 hence the _LINUX specificness.
2795 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2796 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2797 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2800 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2801 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2802 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2803 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2804 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2805 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2806 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2807 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2808 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2809 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2810 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2812 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2815 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2816 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2817 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2818 ignores EPIPE as well.
2820 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2821 (quoted-printable decoding).
2823 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
2824 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
2826 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2828 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2830 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2832 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
2833 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
2835 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2838 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2839 miscellaneous code fixes
2841 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2844 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2845 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2846 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2847 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2848 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2849 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2850 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2851 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
2853 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
2854 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
2855 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2856 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2858 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2859 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2860 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2861 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2862 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2863 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2864 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2865 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2866 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2868 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2871 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2872 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2873 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2874 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2875 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2876 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2877 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2878 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2880 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2881 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2884 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2885 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2886 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2887 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2888 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2889 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2890 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2891 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2892 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2893 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2894 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2895 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2896 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2898 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2899 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2900 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2901 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2902 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2903 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2904 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2906 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2907 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2908 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2909 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2910 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2911 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2912 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2913 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2914 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2915 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2917 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2918 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2919 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2920 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2921 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2923 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2924 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2925 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2926 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2927 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2928 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2929 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2931 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2932 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2933 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2934 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2935 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2936 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2939 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
2940 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2941 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2944 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2945 if any retry times were supplied.
2947 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2948 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2949 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2951 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2953 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2955 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2956 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2957 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2958 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
2959 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2960 before) are ignored.
2962 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2963 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2965 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2966 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2967 committing the later change.]
2969 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2970 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2971 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2972 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2973 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2974 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2975 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2976 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2977 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2979 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2980 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2981 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2982 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2983 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2984 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2985 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2986 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2987 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2989 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2990 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2991 hammering the server.
2993 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2994 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2996 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2998 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2999 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3000 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3002 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3003 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3004 one case where this was not true.
3006 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3007 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3008 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3009 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3012 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3013 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3014 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3015 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3016 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3017 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3018 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3019 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3020 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3023 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3024 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3025 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3026 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3028 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3029 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3031 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3032 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3033 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3035 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3037 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3039 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3041 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3042 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3043 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3044 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3046 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3047 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3049 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3050 be meaningful with "accept".
3052 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3053 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3055 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3056 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3057 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3059 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3060 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3061 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3062 there is data to show.
3063 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3065 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3066 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3067 as well as the number of messages.
3069 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3070 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3071 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3073 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3074 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3075 have a flag are now skipped.
3077 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3078 Added the -emptyok flag.
3080 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3081 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3083 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3084 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3085 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3087 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3090 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3091 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3093 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3095 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3096 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3098 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3100 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3101 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3102 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3103 contravention of the specifications.
3105 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3106 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3107 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3109 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3110 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3111 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3113 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3115 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3116 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3117 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3118 some point in the past.
3120 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3121 transport during callout processing was broken.
3123 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3124 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3126 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3127 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3129 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3130 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3132 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3138 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3139 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3141 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3142 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3143 there is data to show.
3144 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3146 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3147 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3149 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3150 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3152 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3153 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3155 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3156 submissions from trusted users.
3158 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3159 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3161 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3162 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3163 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3164 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3165 there is now a framework to start from.
3167 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3168 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3169 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3171 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3173 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3175 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3177 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3178 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3179 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3181 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3184 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3185 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3186 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3188 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3189 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3190 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3193 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3194 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3195 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3196 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3197 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3199 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3200 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3202 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3204 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3205 operations in malware.c.
3207 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3210 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3211 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3212 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3215 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3216 statements to "add_header".
3218 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3219 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3221 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3222 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3225 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3229 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3230 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3231 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3234 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3235 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3237 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3238 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3240 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3241 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3242 any possible encoding problems.
3244 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3245 but not after initializing Perl.
3247 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3248 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3249 apparently, which is not desirable.
3251 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3254 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3257 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3259 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3260 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3261 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3262 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3264 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3265 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3266 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3268 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3269 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3270 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3273 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3274 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3275 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3276 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3277 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3283 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3284 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3286 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3289 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3290 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3291 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3292 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3293 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3294 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3295 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3296 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3299 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3301 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3302 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3303 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3305 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3306 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3307 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3310 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3311 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3313 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3314 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3315 option (which defaults to 0600).
3317 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3319 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3320 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3321 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3322 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3323 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3324 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3325 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3327 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3333 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3334 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3335 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3336 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3337 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3338 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3341 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3342 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3344 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3346 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3347 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3348 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3349 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3350 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3353 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3354 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3356 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3357 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3358 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3359 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3360 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3362 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3363 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3364 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3365 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3367 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3368 be the same on different OS.
3370 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3373 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3374 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3376 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3379 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3380 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3381 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3382 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3383 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3384 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3387 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3388 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3389 when Exim was called.
3391 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3392 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3394 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3395 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3396 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3397 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3399 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3400 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3401 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3402 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3405 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3406 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3407 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3409 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3410 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3411 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3413 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3416 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3417 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3418 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3419 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3420 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3421 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3422 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3423 values from the SRV records were lost.
3425 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3426 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3427 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3429 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3430 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3431 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3433 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3434 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3435 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3436 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3437 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3438 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3439 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3440 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3441 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3442 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3444 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3445 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3446 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3448 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3449 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3451 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3452 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3453 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3454 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3457 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3458 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3459 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3461 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3462 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3463 PH/23 above applies.
3465 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3466 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3467 (for which there is an explicit test).
3469 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3471 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3472 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3473 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3474 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3475 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
3477 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3478 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3479 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3480 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3482 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3483 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3484 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3486 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3488 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3490 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3491 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3492 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3494 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3495 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3496 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3497 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3498 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3500 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3501 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3502 the message gets confusing).
3504 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3505 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3506 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3507 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3509 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3510 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3511 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3512 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3515 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3516 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3517 the different processes.
3519 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3521 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3523 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3524 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3526 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3527 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3529 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3530 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3531 messages matching specified criteria.
3533 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3535 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3536 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3538 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3539 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3540 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3541 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3542 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3543 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3544 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3545 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3546 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3547 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3549 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3550 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3551 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3553 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3555 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3556 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3557 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3558 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3559 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3560 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3561 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3564 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3565 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3567 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3569 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3571 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3573 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3574 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3575 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3576 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3577 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3578 size of the count of files.
3580 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3582 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3585 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3586 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3587 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3588 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3590 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3591 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3592 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3594 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3595 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3596 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3597 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3598 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3600 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3601 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3603 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3604 will now be deprecated.
3606 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3608 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3609 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3610 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3612 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3613 with very large, slow to parse queues
3615 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3617 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3619 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3620 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3621 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3624 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3625 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3626 Sieve code now uses this.
3628 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3629 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3631 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3632 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3634 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3636 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3637 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3638 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3639 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3640 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3642 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3643 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3644 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3645 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3647 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3649 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3651 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3652 is preferred over IPv4.
3654 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3655 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3656 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3657 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3658 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3659 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3660 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3662 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3663 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3664 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3666 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3668 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3669 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3670 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3671 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3672 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3673 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3674 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3675 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3676 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3677 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3678 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3680 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3681 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3682 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3688 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3690 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3691 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3693 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3694 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3695 statements are most likely to be submissions.
3697 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3699 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3702 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3705 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3706 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3707 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3710 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3711 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3713 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3714 inside the third argument.
3716 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3717 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3720 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3721 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
3723 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3724 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3726 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3728 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3729 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3732 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3734 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3735 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3736 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3737 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3738 identical. For example:
3740 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3742 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3743 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3744 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3746 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3747 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3748 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3749 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3751 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3752 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3753 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3756 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3758 o fixes some comments
3759 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3760 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3761 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3762 and documents the missing references header update
3766 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
3767 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
3770 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3771 Electronic Mail") by including:
3773 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3775 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
3776 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
3777 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3778 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3779 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3781 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3783 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3785 The auto-replied keyword:
3787 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3788 message by an automatic process,
3790 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3792 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3793 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3795 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3796 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3799 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3800 to the default Received: header definition.
3802 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3804 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3805 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3806 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3808 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3809 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3810 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3812 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3813 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3814 and treats the condition as false.
3816 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3818 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3819 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3820 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3821 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3822 not changing the active code.
3824 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3825 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3827 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3828 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3830 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3833 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3834 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3835 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3836 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3837 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3838 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3839 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3840 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3841 the text comparison.
3843 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3844 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3845 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3846 The same fix has been applied.
3852 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3853 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3856 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3857 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3859 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3861 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3862 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3863 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3864 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3865 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3867 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3868 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3869 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3870 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3873 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3881 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3882 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3884 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3886 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3888 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3889 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3890 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3892 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3893 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3894 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3896 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3897 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3900 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3901 ${stat: expansion item.
3903 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3904 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3906 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3907 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3910 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3912 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3915 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3916 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3918 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3920 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3921 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3922 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3923 the end of the subprocess.
3925 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3926 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3927 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3928 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3929 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3931 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3933 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3935 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3936 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3938 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3940 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3942 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3943 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3946 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3948 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3949 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3950 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3952 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3953 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3955 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3956 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3958 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3959 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3961 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3962 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3964 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3965 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3966 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3967 contributed by a Radius user.
3969 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3970 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3972 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3973 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3975 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3978 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3979 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3982 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3983 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3984 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3985 header lines when this was not necessary.
3987 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3989 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3990 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3991 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3994 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3997 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3998 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
3999 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4000 return code was incorrect.
4002 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4004 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4006 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4008 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4010 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4011 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4012 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4013 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4014 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4017 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4019 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4020 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4021 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4022 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4023 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4024 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4025 which is clearly wrong.
4027 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4029 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4030 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4031 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4034 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4035 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4037 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4039 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4040 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4042 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4043 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4045 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4046 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4048 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4049 recipients, not senders.
4051 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4052 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4054 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4056 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4058 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4059 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4060 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4061 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4063 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4065 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4066 clock is set back in time.
4068 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4069 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4071 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4072 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4074 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4075 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4078 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4079 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4082 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4085 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4087 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4088 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4089 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4091 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4092 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4093 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4094 helo verification defer as a failure.
4096 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4097 actual error message.
4103 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4105 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4106 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4107 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4108 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4110 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4112 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4113 can still be requested.
4115 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4116 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4117 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4118 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4120 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4121 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4122 circumstances, but probably never did.
4124 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4125 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4126 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4129 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4131 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4132 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4134 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4136 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4138 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4139 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4140 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4141 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4142 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4143 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4145 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4146 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4147 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4148 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4149 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4150 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4152 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4153 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4155 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4156 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4158 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4159 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4161 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4163 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4165 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4167 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4169 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4171 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4173 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4175 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4176 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4177 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4179 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4180 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4181 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4182 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4184 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4185 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4186 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4188 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4189 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4190 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4191 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4193 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4194 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4197 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4198 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4199 should work with maildirs and everything.
4201 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4202 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4204 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4207 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4208 function for BDB 4.3.
4210 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4212 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4213 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4216 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4217 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4218 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4219 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4220 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4221 formatting function string_vformat().
4223 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4224 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4225 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4226 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4227 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4228 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4229 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4230 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4232 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4233 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4236 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4237 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4239 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4240 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4241 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4242 test. It is now used for both.
4244 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4245 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4246 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4247 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4248 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4249 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4251 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4252 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4253 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4256 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4257 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4258 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4260 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4261 experimental DomainKeys support:
4263 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4264 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4265 the control was given.
4267 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4269 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4271 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4273 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4274 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4275 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4278 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4279 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4280 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4281 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4282 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4283 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4286 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4287 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4288 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4289 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4290 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4291 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4293 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4294 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4295 do -d+all out of habit.
4297 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4298 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4301 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4302 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4303 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4304 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4305 record types that Exim uses.
4307 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4308 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4309 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4310 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4311 non-existent file that was broken.
4313 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4314 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4316 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4317 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4318 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4320 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4322 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4323 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4324 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4325 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4326 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4329 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4330 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4331 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4332 at a slight CPU cost.
4334 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4335 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4337 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4340 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4342 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4343 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4349 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4350 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4352 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4354 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4356 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4357 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4359 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4360 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4361 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4362 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4363 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4364 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4367 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4368 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4369 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4370 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4373 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4374 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4375 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4376 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4377 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4378 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4379 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4382 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4383 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4385 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4386 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4387 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4388 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4389 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4390 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4392 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4393 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4394 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4395 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4397 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4400 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4401 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4403 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4404 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4405 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4406 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4409 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4411 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4412 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4414 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4415 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4416 to what was transported.)
4418 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4420 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4421 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4422 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4423 spamd_address settings.
4425 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4426 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4427 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4428 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4429 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4431 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4433 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4434 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4435 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4436 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4437 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4439 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4440 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4442 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4443 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4444 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4445 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4446 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4447 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4448 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4451 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4452 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4453 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4454 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4455 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4456 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4457 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4460 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4462 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4463 driver and ACL definitions.
4465 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4466 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4468 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4469 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4470 understands it better than I do:
4472 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4473 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4475 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4476 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4477 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4478 => three warnings about OTP not working
4479 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4481 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4482 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4483 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4484 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4486 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4487 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4489 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4490 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4491 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4493 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4494 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4497 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4498 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4501 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4502 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4503 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4505 warn !verify = sender
4506 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4508 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4509 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4511 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4513 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4514 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4516 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4517 nomenclature these days.)
4519 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4520 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4522 PH/30 In these circumstances:
4523 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4524 . First host does not offer TLS;
4525 . First host accepts first address;
4526 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4527 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4528 . Second host accepts second address.
4529 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4530 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4533 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4534 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4535 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4536 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4537 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4539 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4540 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4542 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4543 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
4545 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4546 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4547 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4549 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4550 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4553 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4555 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4556 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4557 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4558 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4559 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4560 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4561 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4563 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4564 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4565 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4566 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4567 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4569 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4570 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4573 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4574 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4575 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4576 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4577 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4578 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4580 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4582 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4583 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4584 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4585 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4586 printable escape sequences.
4588 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4589 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4592 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4593 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4596 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4597 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4598 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4599 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4600 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4602 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4603 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4604 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4606 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4608 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4609 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4612 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4613 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4614 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4615 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4616 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4617 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4618 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4619 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4620 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4623 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4624 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4625 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4626 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4630 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4631 ----------------------------------------
4633 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4634 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4635 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4636 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4637 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4638 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4641 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
4642 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4643 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4644 historical information.
4650 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4652 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
4653 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
4655 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4656 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4659 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4660 filter fails to execute.
4662 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4663 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4664 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4665 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4666 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4668 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4670 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4671 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4672 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4673 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4675 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4676 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4677 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4678 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4679 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4681 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4683 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4685 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4686 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4687 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4688 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4690 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4691 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4692 sender verification.
4694 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4695 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4697 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4699 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4702 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4703 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4705 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4706 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4708 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4709 information about exactly what failed.
4711 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4713 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4714 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4715 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4717 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4718 It is now set to "smtps".
4720 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4721 ignore_target_hosts.
4723 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4724 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4725 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4726 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4729 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4730 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4731 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4733 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4734 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4735 wake it up if nothing else does.
4737 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4738 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4739 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4742 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4743 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4745 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4747 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4748 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4749 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4750 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4751 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4752 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4753 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4754 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4756 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4757 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4758 than one IP address.
4760 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4761 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4762 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4763 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4765 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4766 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4767 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4768 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4769 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4772 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4773 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4774 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4775 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4777 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4778 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4781 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4782 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4783 $sender_host_address.
4785 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4786 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4787 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4788 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4789 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4792 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4794 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4795 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4797 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4798 just the host names, not the priorities.
4800 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
4801 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4802 controlled by a keyword.
4804 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
4805 multiple records are returned.
4807 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4808 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4811 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4813 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4814 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4816 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4817 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4818 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4820 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4822 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4824 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4826 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4827 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4828 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4829 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4830 because the tests only now provoked it.
4832 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4833 (this can affect the format of dates).
4835 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4836 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4837 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4838 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4840 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4842 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4843 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4844 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4845 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4847 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4848 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4849 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4851 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4854 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4855 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4856 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4857 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4858 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4859 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4862 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4863 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4864 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4867 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4868 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4869 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4871 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4872 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4873 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4874 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4875 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4876 so I produce this patch..."
4878 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4879 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4882 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4883 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4884 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4885 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
4888 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4890 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4891 long debug lines gets shown.
4893 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4894 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4896 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4898 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4899 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4900 of $primary_hostname.
4902 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4903 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4904 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4905 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4906 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4907 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4908 by change 4.50/55 above.
4910 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4911 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4912 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4913 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4914 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4915 running as the user.
4918 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4919 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4920 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
4923 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4924 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4926 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4927 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4928 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4929 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4930 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4932 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4933 This has been fixed.
4935 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4936 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4937 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4938 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4941 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4943 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4944 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4945 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4946 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4948 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4949 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4951 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4952 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4953 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4955 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4956 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4957 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4960 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4961 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4962 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4964 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4965 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4966 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4967 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4969 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4970 during host lookups.
4972 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4973 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4975 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4977 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4978 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4979 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4980 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4981 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4984 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4985 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4987 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4988 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4989 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4991 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4993 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4994 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4995 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4996 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4997 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4998 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5001 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5002 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5003 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5004 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5005 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5007 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5010 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5012 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5013 "vacation" handling.
5015 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5016 OS variants using glibc.
5018 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5021 ----------------------------------------------------
5022 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5023 ----------------------------------------------------
5029 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5030 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5033 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5034 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5037 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5038 filter fails to execute.
5040 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5041 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5042 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5043 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5044 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5046 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5047 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5048 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5049 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5051 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5052 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5053 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5054 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5055 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5057 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5059 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5060 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5061 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5062 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5064 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5065 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5066 sender verification.
5068 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5069 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5071 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5072 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5074 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5075 ignore_target_hosts.
5077 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5078 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5079 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5080 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5083 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5084 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5085 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5087 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5088 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5089 wake it up if nothing else does.
5091 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5092 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5093 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5096 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5097 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5099 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5101 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5102 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5105 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5106 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5109 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5110 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5111 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5112 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5113 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5116 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5117 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5120 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5121 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5122 $sender_host_address.
5124 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5126 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5127 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5128 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5130 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5133 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5134 (this can affect the format of dates).
5136 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5137 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5138 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5139 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5141 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5142 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5143 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5145 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5146 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5147 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5148 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5150 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5151 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5152 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5154 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5157 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5158 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5159 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5160 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5161 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5162 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5165 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5166 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5167 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5168 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5171 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5172 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5173 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5174 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5175 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5176 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5177 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5179 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5180 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5181 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5182 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5183 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5184 running as the user.
5187 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5188 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5189 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5192 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5193 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5194 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5195 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5196 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5198 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5199 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5200 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5201 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5204 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5205 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5206 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5207 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5208 because the tests only now provoked it.
5214 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5215 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5216 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5217 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5218 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5219 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5220 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5222 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5223 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5226 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5228 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5230 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5231 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5234 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5235 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5236 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5237 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5238 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5240 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5241 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5243 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5245 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5247 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5250 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5251 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5253 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5254 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5255 affecting debugging statements).
5257 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5259 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5260 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5261 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5262 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5263 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5264 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5265 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5266 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5267 after the received time, and all would be well.
5269 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5270 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5271 condition in an expansion string.
5273 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5275 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5276 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5277 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5278 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5279 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5280 job under whatever limits there are.
5282 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5284 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5287 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5288 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5289 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5290 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5293 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5294 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5295 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5296 binary data in such strings.
5298 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5300 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5301 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5302 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5303 failure, which is pointless.
5305 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5307 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5309 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5310 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5311 Sender: header lines.
5313 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5314 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5315 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5317 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5318 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5319 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5320 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5321 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5324 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5325 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5326 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5327 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5328 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5330 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5331 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5332 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5335 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5336 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5338 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5339 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5341 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5343 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5345 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5347 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5350 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5352 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5354 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5355 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5356 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5357 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5359 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5360 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5366 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5367 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5368 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5370 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5371 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5372 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5373 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5374 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5375 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5377 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5378 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5379 verification failure".
5381 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5382 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5383 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5384 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5386 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5387 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5388 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5389 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5390 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5391 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5392 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5393 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5394 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5395 treated as a timeout.
5397 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5398 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5399 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5400 not set for Exim filters).
5402 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5403 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5404 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5406 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5408 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5409 try to make them clearer.
5411 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5412 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5414 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5416 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5418 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5419 only the Cygwin environment.
5421 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5422 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5423 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5424 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5425 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5427 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5428 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5429 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5430 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5431 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5432 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5433 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5435 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5436 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5438 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5440 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5441 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5442 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5444 To: susanne@some.where
5446 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5447 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5448 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5449 of addresses in From: header lines).
5451 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5452 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5453 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5455 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5456 treated as non-personal.
5458 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5459 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5461 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5463 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5465 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5466 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5467 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5469 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5470 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5472 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5473 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5474 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5475 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5476 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5477 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5479 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5480 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5481 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5482 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5483 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5484 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5485 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5486 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5488 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5490 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5491 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5493 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5494 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5495 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5497 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5498 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5500 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5501 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5502 rather than long int.
5504 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5506 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5512 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5513 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5514 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5515 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5516 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5517 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5523 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5524 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5526 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5527 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5528 socklen_t is defined.
5530 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5533 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5536 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5537 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5538 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5539 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5540 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5542 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5543 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5544 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5545 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5547 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5548 of flapping under certain conditions.
5550 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5551 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5552 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5554 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5556 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5558 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5559 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5560 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5561 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5563 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5564 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5565 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5566 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5567 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5568 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5569 preserved with the message after it was received.
5571 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5572 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5573 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5574 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5575 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5576 test suite worked just fine.
5578 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5579 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5580 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5582 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5583 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5586 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5587 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5588 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5589 does not fully solve it.
5591 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5592 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5593 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5594 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5595 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5597 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5598 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5599 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5601 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5602 string, for example:
5604 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5606 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5607 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5608 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5609 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5610 the routers could not see them.
5612 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5613 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5615 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5616 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5619 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5620 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5621 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5622 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5623 that needed quoting.
5625 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5626 was not being matched caselessly.
5628 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5631 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5632 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5633 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5634 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5635 when use_sender is false.
5637 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5639 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5641 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5643 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5644 the configuration file.
5646 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5647 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5649 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5651 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5652 bytes in the message body.
5654 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5655 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5658 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5660 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5662 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5663 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5664 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5665 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5672 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5673 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5675 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5676 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5677 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5678 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5679 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5681 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5682 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5684 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5685 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5686 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5688 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5689 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5690 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5692 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5695 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5696 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5697 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5698 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5699 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5700 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5701 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5707 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5708 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5709 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5710 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5711 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5712 default (and expected) setting.
5714 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5715 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5716 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5717 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5719 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5720 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5722 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5725 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5726 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5727 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5728 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5729 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5730 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5732 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5733 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5734 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5736 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5737 part (NOT match_host).
5739 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5741 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5742 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5743 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5744 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5745 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5746 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5747 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5748 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5749 the same named file.
5751 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5752 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5755 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5756 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5757 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5758 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5761 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5762 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5763 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5765 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5767 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5769 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5771 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5772 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5774 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5775 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5776 before starting the TLS session.
5778 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5780 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5781 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5783 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5784 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5785 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5786 colon in the middle).
5792 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5793 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5794 multiple configurations are in use.
5796 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5797 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5798 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5799 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5800 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5801 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5803 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5804 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5806 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5807 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5808 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5810 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5811 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5814 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5815 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5817 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5819 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5820 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5822 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5830 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5831 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5832 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5833 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5834 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5836 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5839 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5840 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5841 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5842 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5843 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5844 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5846 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5847 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5848 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5849 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5850 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5851 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5852 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5855 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5856 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5857 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5858 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5859 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5861 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5863 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5864 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5865 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5867 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5869 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5870 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5871 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5874 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5875 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5877 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5878 Three changes have been made:
5880 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5881 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5882 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5883 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5884 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5886 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5889 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5890 the modified behaviour.
5896 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5899 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5900 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5902 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5903 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5904 try to track down a specific problem.
5906 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5907 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5908 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5910 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5913 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5914 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5915 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5916 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5917 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5918 some earlier ones do not.
5920 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5922 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5923 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5924 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5925 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5926 address literals are enabled, of course).
5928 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5930 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5931 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5932 by a command such as
5936 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5938 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5940 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5941 remained set. It is now erased.
5943 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5944 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5946 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5947 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5948 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5949 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5950 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5951 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5952 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5953 appropriate error code.
5955 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5956 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5957 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5958 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5959 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5960 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5962 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5963 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5964 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5966 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5967 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5968 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5969 terminate the header.
5971 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5972 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5973 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5975 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5976 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5977 (4.30/29). In particular:
5979 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5982 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5983 to write a maildirsize file.
5985 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5986 the transport, the new value overrides.
5988 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5991 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5992 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5993 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5996 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5997 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5998 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6001 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6002 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6003 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6005 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6006 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6009 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6010 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6011 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6013 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6015 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6017 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6019 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6020 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6023 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6024 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6025 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6026 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6027 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6028 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6029 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6032 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6033 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6034 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6035 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6036 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6039 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6040 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6041 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6042 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6043 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6044 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6045 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6046 cached value only when the same options are set.
6048 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6050 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6051 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6052 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6053 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6054 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6056 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6057 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6058 it is clearly obsolete.
6060 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6063 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6064 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6065 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6068 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6069 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6070 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6071 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6072 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6074 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6075 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6076 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6077 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6079 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6081 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6083 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6084 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6087 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6088 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6089 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6090 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6091 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6092 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6095 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6096 with the -f command-line option.
6098 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6099 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6100 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6101 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6102 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6103 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6105 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6106 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6109 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6110 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6111 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6112 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6113 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6114 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6115 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6116 buffer is too small.
6118 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6119 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6121 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6122 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6123 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6124 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6125 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6126 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6127 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6128 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6129 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6131 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6132 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6133 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6135 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6136 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6139 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6140 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6141 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6142 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6143 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6145 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6146 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6147 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6148 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6151 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6153 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6155 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6156 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6158 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6159 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6160 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6162 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6163 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6164 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6165 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6166 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6168 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6169 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6170 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6171 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6172 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6173 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6174 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6176 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6177 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6178 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6179 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6180 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6181 the test of how many are available.
6183 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6184 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6185 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6186 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6187 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6188 new message is started.
6190 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6191 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6193 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6194 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6196 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6197 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6198 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6201 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6202 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6203 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6204 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6205 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6206 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6207 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6209 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6210 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6211 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6212 interpreted as octal.
6214 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6217 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6218 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6219 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6220 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6221 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6222 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6224 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6225 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6226 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6227 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6229 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6230 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6231 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6232 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6234 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6235 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6238 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6239 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6241 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6243 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6244 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6245 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6246 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6248 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6249 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6250 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6251 supplied", which is not helpful.
6253 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6254 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6255 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6257 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6258 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6259 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6260 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6261 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6262 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6263 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6264 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6266 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6267 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6268 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6269 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6270 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6272 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6273 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6274 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6275 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6276 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6277 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6279 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6280 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6281 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6283 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6285 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6286 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6287 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6290 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6292 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6293 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6294 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6295 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6296 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6297 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6298 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6299 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6301 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6302 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6303 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6304 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6305 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6307 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6310 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6311 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6312 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6313 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6314 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6315 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6316 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6317 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6318 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6324 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6325 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6326 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6328 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6331 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6332 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6333 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6335 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6336 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6337 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6338 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6339 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6340 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6342 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6343 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6344 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6345 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6346 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6347 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6348 the Exim test suite.
6350 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6351 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6352 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6353 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6355 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6356 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6357 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6358 specify it in this variable.
6360 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6361 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6362 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6363 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6365 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6366 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6367 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6368 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6370 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6371 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6372 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6373 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6374 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6376 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6378 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6381 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6382 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6383 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6384 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6385 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6387 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6388 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6390 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6391 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6392 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6393 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6394 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6396 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6397 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6399 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6400 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6401 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6403 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6404 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6406 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6407 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6409 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6410 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6411 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6413 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6414 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6416 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6417 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6418 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6419 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6421 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6423 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6424 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6425 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6426 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6428 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6430 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6431 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6433 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6435 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6436 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6437 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6438 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6439 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6440 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6442 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6444 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6445 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6448 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6450 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6451 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6453 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6454 550 Sender verify failed
6456 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6457 the final line of the response.
6459 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6460 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6461 all other user lookups.
6463 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6466 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6467 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6468 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6469 result into an int without checking.
6471 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6472 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
6473 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
6475 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6476 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6477 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6478 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6480 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6483 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6484 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6486 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6487 to the empty sender.
6489 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6490 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6491 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6492 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6493 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6494 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6495 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6498 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6499 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6500 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6501 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6504 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6505 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6507 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6510 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6511 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6513 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6515 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6516 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6519 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6520 as soon as it is encountered.
6522 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6524 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6527 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6528 recognizes a tab character.
6530 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6531 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6532 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6533 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6535 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6537 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6540 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6542 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6544 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6545 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6548 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6549 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6550 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6551 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6552 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6554 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6555 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6557 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6558 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6559 list (.included file names were always shown).
6561 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6562 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6563 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6566 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6567 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6569 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6571 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6573 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6575 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6576 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6577 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6578 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6579 failures to open the logs.
6581 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6582 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6583 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6584 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6585 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6586 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6587 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6593 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6594 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6595 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6598 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6599 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6600 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6602 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6603 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6604 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6606 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6607 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6608 causing some misleading effects.
6610 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6611 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6612 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6614 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6615 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6616 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6617 queue-runner function directly.
6623 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6626 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6627 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6628 was always written to the default place.
6630 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6631 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6632 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6634 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6636 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6638 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6639 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6640 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6642 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6643 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6646 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6647 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6648 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6650 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6651 command line option is disabled.
6653 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6654 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6656 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6658 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6660 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6661 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6663 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6665 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6666 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6667 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6668 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6669 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6670 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6672 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6673 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6676 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6677 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6679 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6680 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6682 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6683 received was valid base64.
6685 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6686 name of the variable that was being set.
6688 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6690 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6691 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6692 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6693 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6694 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6695 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6697 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6699 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6700 nor realm was specified.
6702 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6703 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6704 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6705 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6707 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6708 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6709 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6711 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6712 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6713 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6715 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6716 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6717 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6718 some systems use these upper case variants.
6720 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6721 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6722 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6723 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6725 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6727 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6728 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6730 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6731 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6734 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6736 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6737 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6738 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6739 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6741 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6744 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6745 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6746 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6748 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6749 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6751 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6752 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6753 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6754 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6756 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6757 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6758 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6760 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6762 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6763 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6764 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6765 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6768 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6769 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6770 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6772 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6774 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6775 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6777 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6778 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6780 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6781 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6782 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6783 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6784 when emails are that large.
6791 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6792 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6794 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6795 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6796 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6798 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6799 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6800 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6802 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6803 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6804 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6805 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6806 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6808 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6809 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6810 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6811 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6812 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6815 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6816 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6817 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6818 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6819 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6820 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6821 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6822 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6823 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6824 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6825 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6826 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6827 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6828 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6830 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6831 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6834 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6835 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6836 error should be diagnosed.
6838 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6839 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6840 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6841 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6842 appeared instead of "NULL".
6844 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6845 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6846 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6847 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6848 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6849 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6852 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6853 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6854 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6860 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6861 or receiver verification errors.
6863 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6866 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6867 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6868 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6869 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6871 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6872 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6873 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6874 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6875 shouldn't happen again.
6877 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6878 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6879 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6881 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6882 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6884 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6886 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6887 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6889 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6890 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6893 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6894 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6895 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6897 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6898 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6899 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6900 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6902 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6903 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6904 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6905 to define what should happen).
6907 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6908 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6909 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6911 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6913 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6915 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6916 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6918 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
6919 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6920 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6921 structure in all cases.
6923 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6924 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6925 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6926 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6928 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6929 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6932 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6933 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6935 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6936 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6938 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6939 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6940 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6942 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6943 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6944 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6946 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6947 the book and for uniformity.
6949 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6951 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6952 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6953 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6954 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6955 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6956 non-existent command as the problem.
6958 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6959 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6960 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6962 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6964 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6965 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6966 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6968 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6969 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6970 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6971 timestamps using strftime().
6973 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6974 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6976 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6977 transport-time rewrites.
6979 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6980 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6981 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6982 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6984 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6985 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6987 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6988 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6989 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6990 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6993 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6994 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6995 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6996 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6997 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6998 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6999 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7001 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7002 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7003 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7004 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7005 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7007 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7008 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7009 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7010 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7011 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7012 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7013 remaining text gets split now.
7015 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7016 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7017 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7018 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7020 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7021 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7022 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7023 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7026 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7027 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7028 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7029 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7030 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7031 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7032 passed through if needed.
7034 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7035 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7036 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7037 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7038 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7039 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7041 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7042 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7043 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7044 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7045 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7047 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7048 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7049 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7050 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7051 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7053 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7054 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7057 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7058 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7059 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7060 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7061 mayhem of various kinds.
7063 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7064 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7065 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7066 the right test for positive values.
7068 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7069 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7070 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7071 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7072 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7073 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7074 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7075 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7076 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7077 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7080 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7083 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7084 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7087 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7088 the existing equality matching.
7090 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7091 dealing with inode numbers.
7093 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7094 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7095 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7097 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7098 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7099 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7100 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7103 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7104 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7105 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7106 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7107 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7108 relay addresses has also been removed.
7110 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7112 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7113 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7114 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7116 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7117 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7118 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7119 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7120 processing applies to CR:
7122 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7123 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7125 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7126 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7127 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7128 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7130 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7131 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7132 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7134 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7135 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7136 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7137 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7138 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7139 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7142 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7145 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7146 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7147 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7148 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7151 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7153 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7155 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7157 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7158 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7159 not considered personal.
7161 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7163 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7165 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7167 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7168 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7169 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7170 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7171 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7172 header lines, and spool format errors.
7174 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7175 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7176 for more flexibility.
7178 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7179 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7180 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7182 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7185 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7186 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7187 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7188 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7189 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7190 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7191 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7192 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7193 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7195 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7196 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7197 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7198 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7199 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7200 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7201 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7203 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7204 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7205 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7207 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7208 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7209 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7210 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7211 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7212 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7213 instead of killing the process with assert().
7215 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7216 than Unicode encoding.
7218 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7219 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7220 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7221 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7223 77. Added process_log_path.
7225 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7226 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7228 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7229 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7231 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7232 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7233 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7235 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7236 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7237 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7238 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7239 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7242 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7243 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7246 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7247 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7248 they will be used during message reception.
7254 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.